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Synopsis
Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone, even Marshal Guarnaccia, who is unsure of what he has actually witnessed. One of the girls turns up in a village in the Chianti, claiming the kidnappers have released her to propose a ransom for the other victim. But the marshal thinks she s lying. Italian law forbids paying ransom to criminals, and the marshal must find the second girl before her kidnappers decide to end her life."
Synopsis
The second in the Marshal Guarnaccia Series, with an introduction by Georges Simenon
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Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone, even Marshal Guarnaccia, who has trouble piecing together what he has seen.
One of the girls, a Norwegian university student, turns up in a village in the Chianti, concussed and wounded but alive. She says the kidnappers have released her to propose a ransom for the other victim, a wealthy American. But the marshal thinks she’s lying.
The typical kidnapping suspects are the Sardinian shepherds in the Tuscan hills, but this isn’t so simple. The life of the rich foreign girl and the machinations of greed make at least one Sardinian shepherd seem as much a victim as a criminal.