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Magdalen Nabb | Property of Blood | English Title: Property of Blood<br>Novel, 368 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
368 Pages
Published in Sept. 1999

ISBN 978-3-257-06223-6

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Magdalen Nabb
Property of Blood

Published by Diogenes as Alta moda

Olivia Birkett, American ex-model and fashion designer, formerly married as Contessa Brunamonti, who, with iron discipline and a great deal of élan has not only succeeded in paying off the debts of her confidence trickster husband but also in gaining an established position in the Italian Alta moda with her own fashion collection, has been kidnapped. Naturally, Guarnaccia’s boss claims the best part of the case for himself, and Marshal Guarnaccia is instructed to comfort the daughter and the despairing son of the abducted woman, who has been missing for several days, in the Brunamonti Palace. But there is information to be gained from the servants: namely, that the Contessa is nothing like as rich as the kidnappers believe, that all her money is tied up in her fashion company, and that the daughter is trying with unseemly haste to take her mother’s place although the employees regard her as incapable of running a business.

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»Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best.«The Times

»Guarnaccia continues to impress as the most convincingly human of modern detectives and his creator as a writer of deep and rare dimension.«The Observer

»Magdalen Nabb’s books are set in a Florence so vividly realized that I long to go back there after reading each one.« The Sunday Telegraph

»Magdalen Nabb is one of the most original of all crime writers.« Georges Simenon

»The Agatha Christie of the 1990s.«Corriere della Sera

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