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Vita Nuova  •  Magdalen Nabb MYSTERY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES Marshal Guarnaccia is singled out to solve the death of a reclusive single mother with a dysfunctional family in the 14th and final installment of the series set in Florence. Our hero is stuck working through the month of August in a Florence that's "pretty empty except for tourists." Things heat up in more ways than one when Guarnaccia is called to investigate the murder of a single mother who is working towards her doctorate. The crime scene is her family's ritzy villa, with swimming pool out back and foreign cars in the driveway, none of which appeals to the old-fashioned marshall who would prefer to see a "nice orchard" or a "vineyard" on the property. It turns out that the source of these riches is not the father's nightclub, but his involvement in the sex trade. With his favorite colleagues on vacation, his favorite restaurants closed, and his wife away caring for his ailing sister, the lonely Guarnaccia finds himself joining forces with the dean of local crime reporters. (ITL938, $13.00)
End Games  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Murder, eccentric millionaires, American film scouts and buried treasure all figure prominently in Dibdin's last Zen mystery, set in the hill towns of Calabria. (ITL873, $15.00)
A Question of Belief  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES In this 19th book in Donna Leon's much-loved series, Comissario Brunetti grapples with ever more ingenious corruption, the usual bureaucratic intransigence -- and the sweltering Venetian summer. As usual it is not so much the very interesting crimes to be solved (judge on the take, shady psychic bilking an old lady) but the meals, Brunetti's family and scenes of Venice, where Leon has lived many years. (ITA134, $15.00)
The Track of Sand  •  Stephen Sartarelli  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Book 12 in Camilleri's series (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy) again stars the world-weary and food-loving Inspector Montalbano. After he comes across a bludgeoned horse and his seaside home is ransacked, Montalbano must investigate Sicily's horseracing subculture and its connections to the Mafia. (ITA166, $14.00)

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