SOME BITTER TASTE Author:Magdalen Nabb Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the Florentine flat in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment.The Marshal knows she is a lonely and terrified old woman, but he is preoccupied with an investigation int an Albanian prostitution ring. Befor... more »e he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead...
The Marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brigs him into confrontation with the past, with Albanian refugees and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly...« less