The Marshal Makes His Report

Praise for Magdalen Nabb: "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"Elegant in style and elegant in mind."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)The suspicious-looking suicide of the husband of the Marchesa, a member of one of Florence's oldest families, has the marshal once again refusing to accept the easy answer.Magdalen Nabb was born and educated in England. She lived and wrote in Florence, where she died on August 18, 2007.

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire and trained as a potter. In 1975, she left her old life behind and moved with her son to Florence, where she fell in love with the local setting. Her Marshal Guarnaccia series, which has been translated into ten languages, was inspired by a real local marshal she befriended in the tiny pottery town of Montelupo Fiorentino. Nabb wrote children’s fiction and crime novels until her death in 2007.