Магдален Нэб – лучшие книги

Во Флоренции весна, и все окружение инспектора Гварначчи настроено довольно легкомысленно и благодушно. Дело, над которым работает инспектор, – убийство молодой женщины, – кажется совершенно рутинным и, вроде бы, не обещает никаких осложнений: не приходится ни утешать убитых горем родственников, ни противостоять давлению со стороны властей, ни прятаться от вездесущих папарацци. Но вдруг ситуация резко меняется. Происходит второе убийство, и Гварначча обвиняет себя в том, что не сумел его предотвратить. Заурядное следствие становится одним из самых напряженных в его жизни.

Инспектор карабинеров Гварначча расследует похищение графини Брунамонти, в прошлом известной американской модели. Оказывается, Оливию Брунамонти похитили по ошибке. Настоящей целью бандитов была ее дочь Катерина, за которую мать выложила бы любые деньги. Но дочь отказывается заплатить выкуп за мать, тем самым подписывая ей смертный приговор. Она считает себя и брата истинными аристократами, которым по праву принадлежит фамильное достояние, хотя их мать основала дом моды и на честно заработанные деньги выкупила семейное гнездо - палаццо Брунамонти, отдав долги мужа, гуляки и транжира. Гварначча рискует жизнью и карьерой, пытаясь спасти Оливию.

Сара Хирш - престарелая вдова, живущая в квартирке над антикварной лавкой. Страшно перепуганная тем, что у нее дома, как ей кажется, побывали посторонние, она обращается за помощью к инспектору Гварначче. Инспектор, занятый расследованием деятельности албанских криминальных групп, орудующих в Италии, не успевает принять меры, и вдову убивают. Поиски преступников,…

A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work obsessed-parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life.

It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are always a few mysteries. In this case, the dead man had been in the habit of moving his furniture at three o'clock in the morning. Naturally, the police wanted to know why. The case became more complicated. But all the time, the answer was right under their noses. They just couldn't see it. It was, after all, a very ordinary murder.

Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case—a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades.

Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri—the local Florentine police—usually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work with the police in trying to track down a vicious serial killer, he feels out of his league. To make matters worse, the Proc he must report to is Simonetti, the same man he knows drove an innocent man to suicide several years earlier in his blind quest for a conviction. The Marshal can't let the stress of the case get to him if he wants to make sure justice is upheld.

There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepancies. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...

Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone, even Marshal Guarnaccia, who is unsure of what he has actually witnessed. One of the girls turns up in a village in the Chianti, claiming the kidnappers have released her to propose a ransom for the other victim. But the marshal thinks she’s lying. Italian law forbids paying ransom to criminals, and the marshal must find the second girl before her kidnappers decide to end her life.

When the body of Buongianni Corsi is found lying face down in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ulderighi there seems no doubt in the minds of his family that his death was an accident. The Marchesa, wife of the dead man, will entertain no other possibility and her power and status in the city means that Marshal Guarnaccia questions at his peril. But question he does.