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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9781569475317
ISBN number: 1569475318
Label: Soho Crime
Manufacturer: Soho Crime
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: September 01, 2008
Publishing house: Soho Crime
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Studio: Soho Crime
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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.'-Publishing houses 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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I've read all of Nabb's books, and like the way she weaves details about Florence and its citizens into her murder stories. However, this book is a dreary trudge. There's a gruesome murder of a transsexual, but the way she describes the demi-monde of transsexual prostitutes leaves you with the idea that droves of Florentine young men are going to Spain to undergo sex changes just so they can be more alluring hookers. It didnt seem like the author really knew very much about what drives anybody to undergo such a life-altering process. We can be fairly certain, however, that the pinnacle of such a person's ambition is greater than continuing to turn tricks in the middle of the night in a public park. Like all of her books, this one features Marshal Guarnaccia, but her description of him here is not well done: she omits the fine points of his low-key character, and makes him a dolt. Additional aggravation for the reader includes home life peppered with minor, boring dramas, one kid acting up (who cares?) and the Marshal's overly protective nervous wife chewing on her knuckles. The book just doesn't rise to the level of her other work. I guess transsexual prostitution might seem like a spicy topic to build a story around, but this one fails on so many counts, and is so unbelievable, that you keep checking to see how many pages are left until it's over. Writing a series that's consistently good surely must be a challenge. Sometimes good writers misfire. In my opinion you could skip this one and not miss anything.
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