Blood Ties: A Salvatore Guarnaccia Detective

Guarnaccia, the absent-minded police chief of the carabinieri, needs his excellent knowledge of human nature when the lovely Countess Olivia Brunamonti is kidnapped by a professional gang of criminals. Italian law prohibits the payment of ransom and because her family does not report the kidnapping for a week, Olivia's situation worsens. In addition, the gang has left a false trail to a rival clan. A race against time. Bloedbanden is the second part in Dutch translation of a series of crime novels set in modern Florence, starring the sympathetic police chief Salvatore Guarnaccia. `It takes a good writer like Magdalen Nabb to remind us how subtle the art of the crime novel can be. The New York Times Book Review. Her novels glow with the warmth and charm of the Florence in which they are set. The Washington Post. Guarnaccia continues to impress as the most human of modern sleuths and his creator as an author of great and rare class. The Observer Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire, England, in 1947. In 1975 she sold her house and moved with her son to Florence. She has remained there ever since, and has made a name for herself as both a crime writer and a children's author.