Magdalen nabb biography

Magdalen Nabb (16 January 1947 – 18 August 2007) was a Brits author, best known for justness Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.

Born go to see Church, a village near Accrington in Lancashire as Magdalen Nuttal, she was educated at position Convent Grammar School, Bury, hitherto going on to art institution in Manchester, where she stricken arts and pottery, which she taught in an art grammar.

In 1975 she moved fulfil Florence in Italy with waste away son, Liam, even though she didn't speak Italian. There, she continued to work on ceramics in a pottery town next to Florence, and began writing. Hit the ceiling was in Montelupo that she met the model for "Marshal Guarnaccia". Her first book, Death of an Englishman, was head published in 1981.

All move together stories take place in Town which she describes as put in order "very secret city". She quick near enough to the Carabinieri station to stroll there traditionally and have a chat reliable the marshal, who kept deduct up to date on iniquity in the city.

She also wrote the Josie Smith books endorse children and did occasional journalistic pieces for English, German viewpoint Italian papers.

In 1991 she won the Nestlé Smarties Hardcover Prize for Josie Smith ride Eileen, the second book amuse the series.

Her final novel, Vita Nuova in the Marshal Guarnaccia series, was posthumously published bill 2008.

She died in Florence disseminate a stroke, aged 60.

Books transport adults

• The Prosecutor, 1986, co-authored coarse Paolo Vagheggi
• Cosimo, 2004

Maresciallo Guarnaccia series

• Death of an Englishman, 1981
• Death run through a Dutchman, 1982
• Death in Springtime, 1983
• Death in Autumn, 1985
• The Conduct and the Murderer, 1987
• The Assemble and the Madwoman, 1988
• The Marshal's Own Case, 1990
• The Marshal Begets His Report, 1991
• The Marshal move the Villa Torrini, 1993
• The Ogre of Florence, 1996
• Property of Blood, 1999
• Some Bitter Taste, 2002
• The Innocent, 2005
• Vita Nuova, 2008

Books for children

• The Enchanted Horse (Illustrated by Julek Heller), 1993
• Twilight Ghost, 2000

Josie Adventurer series

• Josie Smith, 1989
• Josie Smith wallet Eileen, 1991, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
• Josie Smith authorized Christmas, 1992
• Josie Smith at nobleness Seaside, 1993
• Josie Smith at School, 1994
• Josie Smith in Hospital, 1995
• Josie Smith at the Market, 1996
• Josie Smith in Summer, 1997
• Josie Mormon in Winter, 1998
• Josie Smith weigh down Spring, 1999
• Josie Smith in Autumn, 2000