Some Bitter Taste

Magdalen Nabb (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2004
Arrow Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-09-944336-0 (ISBN)

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When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat above a long-standing Florentine antiquities shop 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 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 Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly-

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. She has lived in Florence since 1975, where she pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	110 x 178 mm
Gewicht	1718 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-944336-8 / 0099443368
ISBN-13	978-0-09-944336-0 / 9780099443360
Zustand	Neuware