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A little toy horse is about to change Irina’s life forever.Award-winning classic young fiction, beautifully illustrated.Bella was real… Dreams don’t eat hay and drink water. Dreams don’t leave footprints in the snow.When Irina sees a tatty horse in a junk-shop window, she thinks it looks sad and lonely. Irina is an only child and wants nothing more than to take care of this horse.Little does she know how special Bella is or that magical journeys lie in wait for them!

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.

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.

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, ускоривших смерть беззащитной старухи, сводят его с еврейской общиной Флоренции и с английскими эмигрантами, в том числе с владельцем элегантной виллы Л'Уливето.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Out giving his wife driving lessons, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri witnesses a disturbance in the streets involving a local eccentric, “crazy Clementina.” When the woman is found dead in her apartment soon after the incident, of an apparent suicide, the marshal is puzzled and immediately suspects foul play. But who would have a motive to kill her? As the marshal dives into the case and reconstructs Clementina’s tragic past, his investigation dredges up the events surrounding a disastrous flood some twenty years earlier and a controversial piece of legislation with profound effects on the lives of Italy's mentally unstable residents.

A young Swiss art student has been reported missing, and Marshal Guarnaccia must travel to the small town where she was studying to find out the truth about her disappearance. When her body is found, it appears that she was the victim of a sex-related crime. But Guarnaccia—who comes from a small town himself—suspects that a local feud with roots in the horrors and betrayals of World War II may play an important part in the solution to the crime.

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.

The ninth installment in the popular series featuring Florentine Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia has the portly policeman investigating an accident involving a famous author. (Nabb's) scenes are so cleverly constructed that even her most bizarre characters seem fully formed and touchingly human.--Chicago Tribune.

Follows the amusing adventures of Josie and her best friend Eileen as they celebrate their birthdays, have a sleepover, and participate in a wedding.

“ The lore and mystique of male transvestite lifestyles in Florence. . . . The marshal takes the case that no one wants, a situation underscoring the novel’s theme of unloved and troubled children.”—Publishers Weekly
“Among the genre’s most appealing cops.”—Booklist

“Surpasses the best of Simenon.”—Kirkus Reviews

The marshal must leave his snug world at the Pitti Palace to seek a criminal in the shadowy haunts of prostitutes, pimps, and tricks. No one believes that he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds their expectations.

The body of a woman, clad only in a fur coat and jewelry, is found floating in the Arno at dawn. Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri identifies her as a missing hotel guest. But how and why did she die? Was it a bizarre suicide? Or murder?

Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia Series:

“It takes a writer as good as Magdalen Nabb to remind us of how subtle the art of the mystery can be. . . . Nabb has Simenon’s knack.”—The New York Times Book Review

“If you didn’t make it to Florence this summer, don’t despair. . . . There’s a new Marshal Guarnaccia investigation.”—Chicago Tribune

“Surpasses the best of Simenon.”—Kirkus Reviews

“There is no other series quite like the Guarnaccia stories.”—The Washington Post Book World

Daniela is a quiet single mother studying for a doctorate in chemistry. She rarely goes out, so her murder in her bedroom at the family’s new villa seems inexplicable. It is true that her mother, who appears to be an alcoholic; her younger sister, who has had mental problems; and her father, who has made his money running nightclubs and is probably involved in the international sex trade, are not your average home-loving Italian nuclear family, but what can she have done to be singled out for slaughter? And why has the prosecutor asked specifically for Marshal Guarnaccia to head the investigation?

This is the fourteenth book in this acclaimed series. Magdalen Nabb, who was born and educated in England, lived and wrote in Florence, where she died on August 18, 2007.