W sercu Florencji, marszałek Guarnaccia, bystry funkcjonariusz Carabinieri, staje w obliczu skomplikowanych relacji międzyludzkich i ukrytych tajemnic. Każda sprawa odsłania nowe wątki zbrodni i intryg, a jego przenikliwość oraz empatia są kluczowe w rozwiązywaniu zagadek osadzonych w bogatej historycznej scenerii tego włoskiego miasta.
This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.
W pierwszym tomie florenckiego cyklu Magdalen Nabb stolica Toskanii tonęła w strugach grudniowego deszczu, a sierżant Salvatore Guarnaccia rozwiązywał zagadkę śmierci niesympatycznego Anglika, walcząc z paskudną grypą. Tym razem gorączka trawi samą Florencję, osłabioną letnim upałem, najazdem turystów i falą przestępstw, na których tle nagły zgon jubilera zwanego przez sąsiadów Holendrem nie wywołuje większych podejrzeń. Wyjątkiem jest Guarnaccia, któremu w pamięć zapadły ostatnie słowa domniemanego samobójcy oraz zeznania dwojga z pozoru całkiem niewiarygodnych świadków: niewidomego mężczyzny i skłonnej do mitomanii staruszki. Dorota Kozińska W Śmierci Anglika czuć było rękę mistrzyni. Śmierć Holendra to już arcydzieło. Georges Simenon
De dokter van een Amerikaanse zakenman wordt in Florence ontvoerd door mensen die goed thuis zijn in het Toscaanse heuvelland.
Bea je úspešná, krásna a silná žena. Jej život sa zdá byt ideálny. Ale zdanie, ako to už býva, klame. Stačí jeden okamih, ktorý ju zrazí na kolená. Napriek tomu dokáže zvládnuť to, čo sa jej zo začiatku zdalo byt nemožné. A rozhodne sa svoj život od základov zmeniť. Krok za krokom nachádza samú seba a spoznáva lásku, v akú už ani nedúfala. Začne napokon veriť aj na zázraky?
Sie ist auf dem Revier, um ihre Freundin vermißt zu melden. Beide sind ursprünglich zum Italienischlernen aus der Schweiz nach Florenz gekommen und dann geblieben, um in einer nahen Kleinstadt illegal zu arbeiten. Seit drei Tagen ist die bildhübsche Monika Heer spurlos verschwunden. Als die Leiche des Mädchens unter einem Haufen Tonscherben entdeckt wird, ist auch Maresciallo Guarnaccia ratlos.
Why should anyone want to murder Clementina, the crazed old woman who tidied by night the narrow streets of Florence's San Frediano district? Starting without clues, the Marshal sets out in the city's August heat to reconstruct her past. By the author of "The Marshal Makes His Report".
“ 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.
Marshal Guarnaccia enters Florentine high society in search of a clever killer.
Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia series: "The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen Nabb's police procedurals has all to do with the feeling of displacement that haunts her sensitively observed characters."--"The New York Times Book Review" A well-known writer is found dead in the Villa Torrini near Florence without a mark of violence on her. Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri must solve the mystery while struggling with a new legal system and a strict diet. Magdalen Nabb was born and educated in England. She lived and wrote in Florence, where she died in August 2007.
Investigating a forgery in the art world, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Pitti Palace carabinieri station is dragged into a final attempt to nail the serial killer who has ritually slaughtered seven courting couples over the last ten years and finds himself facing a forgery in his own line of business.
Olivia, an American-born model, married Count Ugo Brunamonti, a feckless, soon impoverished aristocrat. The government's official policy is not to permit the payment of ransom. But if the money isn't paid, the kidnappers cannot let their victim go free. Can it be that Olivia's children are unwilling to pay the ransom?
"Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the Florentine flat 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 and terrified 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 Albanian refugees and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly."--BOOK JACKET
It is spring in Florence and everyone around Marshal Guarnaccia seems to be in love, even his own son. The case he is working on, the murder of a young woman, seems to present no particular problems. No distressed parents, no political or influential connections, no pressure from the media. The investigation takes him only a few steps from home, to the Boboli gardens and to the artisans' quarter - where he knows everybody and everybody knows him. The locals also trust him - until he seems to be accusing one of them - then everything changes. A second death follows and Guarnaccia is convinced that it is his fault. The case becomes one of the most distressing he's ever had to handle. Burdened with guilt, he finds it impossible to trust his own instincts any more. But he has to learn to do so before he can get at the truth.
A young mother is found dead in her bedroom in the elegant villa of the newly rich Paolottis. There seems to be no motive for the brutal crime until Marshal Guarnaccia investigates.
