Review
"('Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best' Sunday Times)."
Book Description
A chilling, gripping and perceptive novel based on the real-life case of a Florentine serial killer, from the highly acclaimed Magdalen Nabb ('Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best' Sunday Times).
Product Description
Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence carabinieri is first puzzled and then irritated when he is dragged into a last-ditch attempt to nail the Monster, a vicious serial killer who has ritually slaughtered seven courting couples in the most brutal of circumstances. But he is soon sucked into the horror and squalor of a multi-layered case that has confounded the authorities for over ten years. So when a case is made out against the wrong man - a monster in his own right who beats his wife and sexually abuses his daughter - who is going to admit it? Summoning the courage to speak out, the Marshal rapidly realises that no one wants to listen. It is more comfortable for everyone, even the wrongly accused man, if the blood-soaked vineyards keep their secret of what really happened on the Saturday nights of the new moon... (20050107)
From the Publisher
A chilling, gripping and perceptive novel based on the real-life case of a Florentine serial killer, from the highly acclaimed Magdalen Nabb ('Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best' Sunday Times).
From the Back Cover
Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence carabinieri is first puzzled and then irritated when he is dragged into a last-ditch attempt to nail the man known as the Monster, a vicious serial killer who has ritually slaughtered seven courting couples in the most horror and squalor of a multi-layered case that has confounded the authorities for over ten years, and nothing but the truth will do. So when a case is made out against the wrong man – a monster in his own right who beats his wife and sexually abuses his daughter – who is going to admit it? No one but him.
Summoning the courage to speak out, the Marshal rapidly realises that no one wants to listen. It is more comfortable for everyone, even the wrongly accused man, if the blood-soaked vineyards keep their secret of what really happened on those Saturday nights of the new moon…
A chilling gripping and perceptive novel based on the real-life case of a Florentine serial killer that will both fascinate and terrify from the highly acclaimed Magdalen Nabb.
“Magdalen Nabb's books are set in a Florence so vividly brought to life that I long to go back there after reading each one”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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About the Author
Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947. She has lived in Florence since 1975 and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author. (20050107)
