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Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia Series:

"It takes a writer as good as Magdalen Nabb to remind us of how subtle the art of the mystery can be. . . . Nabb has Simenon's knack."-The New York Times Book Review

"If you didn't make it to Florence this summer, don't despair . . . There's a new Marshal Guarnaccia investigation."-Chicago Tribune

"Surpasses the best of Simenon."-Kirkus Reviews

"There is no other series quite like the Guarnaccia stories."-The Washington Post Book World

Daniela is a quiet single mother studying for a doctorate in chemistry. She rarely goes out, so her murder in her bedroom at the family's new villa seems inexplicable. It is true that her mother, who appears to be an alcoholic; her younger sister, who has had mental problems; and her father, who has made his money running nightclubs and is probably involved in the international sex trade, are not your average home-loving Italian nuclear family, but what can she have done to be singled out for slaughter? And why has the prosecutor asked specifically for Marshal Guarnaccia to head the investigation?

This is the fourteenth book in this acclaimed series. Magdalen Nabb, who was born and educated in England, lived and wrote in Florence, where she died on August 18, 2007.

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Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead found new and compelling evidence for the existence of the bride of Jesus--the same enigmatic woman who anointed him with precious unguent from her “alabaster jar.”

In this provocative book, Starbird draws her conclusions from an extensive study of history, heraldry, symbolism, medieval art, mythology, psychology, and the Bible itself. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar is a quest for the forgotten feminine--in the hope that its return will help restore a healthy balance to planet Earth.

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The debut of Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri, a Sicilian, stationed in Florence

It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well-connected and Scotland Yard has despatched two officers to "assist" the Italians in solving the crime. But it is the marshal, a quiet observer, not an intellectual, who manages to figure out what happened, and why.

In addition to the wonderful atmosphere of Florence, Magdalen Nabb has created a delightful investigator who has been described as "the most Maigret-like of contemporary policemen" by the Times Literary Supplement.
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Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia series:

"This elegant series, which began in 1981 with Death of an Englishman . . . is set in Florence, a city that glows in the Tuscan sun. . . . [His] sense of estrangement accounts for Guarnaccia's special perspective on strangers, those innocents' among the living and the dead."-The New York Times Book Review

"Lean, elegant prose that surpasses the best of Simenon, along with a puckish view of the Florentines from Guarnaccia's Sicilian perspective."-Kirkus Reviews

"The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit."-The Washington Post

"Great local atmosphere and rich characterizations."-Publishers Weekly

"A superb series. . . . A working-man's Maigret."-Booklist

"Crime fiction at its best."-The Sunday Times (London)

"Guarnaccia's Florence is a delightful place to visit."-Mystery Scene

Summoned by an aged woman to investigate mysterious noises in the vacant flat next to hers, Marshal Guarnaccia discovers a dying Dutch jeweler. The old lady had known him when he was a boy growing up in Florence. Could he have returned to the family home just to commit suicide? Or could the man be the victim of a cunning murderer?

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire. She has lived in Florence since 1975 and has written twelve Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries. This is the second in the series.

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This is Mary Magdalen's personal story of her tantric relationship with Yeshua ben Joseph, known today as Jesus Christ. A love so deep it has survived over 2000 years of lies, to be finally told now, in this, "the beginning of the ending of time." A High Initiate of the Temple of Isis, Mary Magdalen was the Holy Grail, the cup that carried the blood of Christ. And the long-prophesied "sun" that was born to her was a girl named Sar'h.

In the Magdalen Manuscript, given by her and reprinted here, word-for-word as she gave it, she describes the alchemy that she and Yeshua practiced. This is the alchemy that prepared him to sustain life after death, so that he could meet his destiny and lay a trail of light through the death realms, a light path each of us can follow.

This is Her Story, revealing some of the deepest secrets of the Temples, as requested by Isis. To this remarkable test, Tom Kenyon has added a comparison of the major streams of internal alchemy, plus an in-depth look at Egyptian High Alchemy and a clarification of the Alchemies of Horus. Judi Sion, at the request of Mary Magdalen, has added One Woman's Story, which is every woman's story..
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Praise for Magdalen Nabb:>"The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen Nabb's police procedurals has all to do with the feeling of displacement that haunts her sensitively observed characters."-The New York Times Book Review

"Elegant in style and elegant in mind."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The suspicious-looking suicide of the husband of the Marchesa, a member of one of Florence's oldest families, has the marshal once again refusing to accept the easy answer.

Magdalen Nabb was born and educated in England. She lived and wrote in Florence, where she died on August 18, 2007.

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A young Swiss art student who commutes to a small town near Florence is reported missing. Then her body is found. Was it a sex crime? Guarnaccia suspects a local feud with its roots in World War II.
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" The lore and mystique of male transvestite lifestyles in Florence. . . . The marshal takes the case that no one wants, a situation underscoring the novel's theme of unloved and troubled children."-Publishers Weekly

"Among the genre's most appealing cops."-Booklist

"Surpasses the best of Simenon."-Kirkus Reviews

The marshal must leave his snug world at the Pitti Palace to seek a criminal in the shadowy haunts of prostitutes, pimps, and tricks. No one believes that he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds their expectations.

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"Smart and earthy . . . richly imaginative . . . the epitome of the storyteller's art."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch (chosen as one of "The Year's Best Books")

"This amazing book could well become a classic of women's literature."-Booklist (chosen as one of the "Year's Ten Best Fantasy Books")

Young Magdalen and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Their pleasure is overshadowed by a brilliant but unbalanced druid who knows a perilous secret about Maeve's past. The prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen.

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Praise for Magdalen Nabb:

"Magdalen Nabb is so good she's awesome."-Philadelphia Inquirer

"First rate. Engrossing, artful and -completely satisfying. Nabb is a fine writer."-Frank Conroy

"Elegant of style and elegant of mind."-Publishers Weekly, starred

"Nabb is formidable."-Houston Post

An elderly woman is found dead in her apartment. The marshal's search for the villains brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with an English expatriate.

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire. She has lived in Florence since 1975.

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