Some Bitter Taste - Couverture souple

Nabb, Magdalen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786254181 ISBN 13 : 9780786254187

Editeur : Thorndike Pr, 2003

A propos du livre

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Praise for Some Bitter Taste

“Although [the Marshal] is exquisitely attuned to the changeable moods of his city and infinitely patient about the vagaries of its citizens, he often feels himself a hopeless outsider from Sicily. That estrangement is what makes Guarnaccia a compassionate champion of the many foreign victims.”
—The New York Times

“Fans of George Simenon’s Inspector Maigret will find much to like in Nabb’s twelfth police procedural . . . [Nabb possesses] elegant style and sensitivity to character.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Surprising plot twists . . . Strongly recommended for readers who like sophisticated, literate mysteries in foreign settings.”
—Library Journal

“The self-effacing carbinieri marshal is among the genre’s most appealing cops.”
—Booklist
Praise for Magdalen Nabb

"Exquisite."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Every word should be savored."
—Washington Post Book World

"The best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon Magdalen Nabb and her tremendous creation, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Italian Police in Florence."
—Chicago Tribune

"Nabb continues to extend conventions of the police procedural to suit her own intriguing vision and purpose."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat above a long-standing Florentine antiquities shop in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment. The marshal knows she is a lonely old woman but he is preoccupied with an investigation into an Albanian prostitution ring. Before he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead. The marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly-

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Pr
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786254181
• ISBN 13: 9780786254187
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289