Travel Reference
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MURDER MOST TUSCAN
Tuscany features as the setting for some great crime fiction written by local and international authors.
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Michael Dibdin
His popular Aurelio Zen novels include
And Then You Die
(2002), set on the
Tuscan coast.
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Michele Giuttari
A former high-ranking Florentine policeman, Giuttari has set four of his Michele
Ferrara novels here
: A Florentine Death
(2008),
A Death in Tuscany
(2009),
Death of a Mafia Don
(2010) and
The Black Rose of Florence
(2012).
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Lucretia Grindle
The Inspector Pallioti novels -
The Faces of Angels
(2006),
The Villa Triste
(2010) and
The Lost Daughter
(2011) - are set in Florence.
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John Spencer Hill
The late Canadian writer set two historical crime titles here:
The Last Castrato
(1995) in Florence and
Ghirlandaio's Daughter
(1996) in Lucca.
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Christobel Kent
Her Florentine-based private detective Sandro Cellini features in
A Florentine
Revenge
(2006),
A Time of Mourning
(aka
The Drowning River;
2009),
A Fine and Private Place
(aka
Murder in Tuscany;
2010),
The Dead Season
(2012) and
A Darkness Descending
(2013).
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Magdalen Nabb
The prolific British crime writer wrote 14 novels featuring Florentine policeman
Marshal Guarnaccia.
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Iain Pears
The Jonathan Argyll/Flavia di Stefano series includes
The Raphael Affair
(1991), set in
Siena;
Giotto's Hand
(1994), set in Florence; and
The Immaculate Deception
(2000), set in various
Tuscan locations.
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Marco Vichi
Italian crime fiction writer who writes the Inspector Bordelli series. His latest title is
Death in Florence
(2013).
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Elizabeth George
In
Just One Evil Act
(2013), the first of the Lynley books to be set outside Bri-
tain, the Inspector travels to Lucca in search of a missing British child.
