Author
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.
»A writer of elegant crime fiction.«The Daily Telegraph