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Magdalen Nabb

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Magdalen Nabb was born in Church, a village in Lancashire, England, in 1947. She studied at the Manchester University of Art, where she began to write. Since 1975 she has lived in Florence, working as a journalist and novelist. She became famous for her Guarnaccia crime novels – to date, thirteen novels about the crotchety yet likeable Maresciallo have been published – and also wrote books for children and teenagers. Madgalen Nabb died on 18 August 2007.

»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.« The Sunday Telegraph

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