Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine Carabinieri wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family in Sicily, but a retired Englishman living in Florence has been murdered. Who has shot Mr. Langley-Smythe in the back? The marshal must discover the identity of the criminal and the motive for the crime before he can take the train home for the holidays.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 9781616952990 (July, 2013), 224 p., $9.99, eBook $7.99.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
Introducing Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri, a Sicilian stationed far from home. He wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family, but he is laid up with the 'flu. At this awkward moment, the death of a retired Englishman is reported. A most inconvenient time for a murder case. Who has shot Mr Langley-Smythe in the back? And why has Scotland Yard felt it appropriate to send two detectives, one of whom speaks no Italian, to 'help' the marshal and his colleagues with their investigation? Most importantly for the marshal, ever the Italian, will he be able to solve the crime in time to join his family over the holiday season?

This first book in the ever popular detective series is a wonderfully evocative piece of crime fiction and quasi-travel writing, as the reader is immediately transported into the heart of Florence, one of Italy's most beautiful cities.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman. A Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099443346 (February, 2004), 238 p., £7.99.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go south to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine carabinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita Bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well connected and Scotland Yard has dispatched two officers to "assist" the Italians in solving the crime. But it is the marshal, a quiet observer - not an intellectual - who manages to figure out what happened and why.

In addition to evoking the wonderful atmonsphere of Florence, Magdalen Nabb has created a delightful investigator who has been described as "the most Maigret-like of contemporary policemen" by The Times Literary Supplement.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of an Englishman. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 1569472548 (September, 2001), 172 p., $12.00.