Magdalen Nabb Books in Order

Autumn brings blackberries, birthday plans, bonfire night, and more chances for Josie to worry. In these seasonal stories, small disappointments and tiny compliments both feel important in Josie's busy village life.

Called to investigate noises in an empty flat, Marshal Guarnaccia finds a dying Dutch jeweler. It looks like suicide, yet the man's return to his childhood home raises troubling questions about murder.

Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia hopes to leave Florence for a Sicilian Christmas, but an English retiree is shot dead. With outside detectives complicating matters, he must solve the murder before he can go home.

During an unlikely March snowfall, two foreign girls vanish from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. One returns with a ransom demand, but Marshal Guarnaccia doubts her story and races to find the other.

A woman dressed only in a fur coat and jewelry is found floating in the Arno at dawn. Marshal Guarnaccia identifies her as a missing hotel guest and must determine whether she was murdered or took her own life.

Co-written with Paolo Vagheggi, this political thriller draws on Italy's years of political violence. A kidnapping exposes the pressure, fear, and moral compromises surrounding a major national crisis.

A Swiss art student disappears from the Tuscan village where she has been studying, then her body is found. Marshal Guarnaccia suspects an old local feud, with roots in wartime betrayal, lies behind the crime.

After a street disturbance, local eccentric Clementina is found dead in an apparent suicide. Marshal Guarnaccia senses murder and uncovers a tragic past shaped by Florence's flood and failures in mental health care.

Josie Smith tries to earn money for Mum's birthday, paint a blackboard, and care for a cat. Each well-meant plan goes wrong, but kindness and common sense help her put things right.

Josie likes school, most of the time. A new teacher, a classmate who speaks no English, and a concert role she doesn't want turn good intentions into a string of memorable scrapes.

Josie visits the seaside with Mum and Gran, where she rides a donkey, makes a new dog friend, and builds sandcastles. Then a simple shell-collecting trip leaves her lost and frightened.

Leading a murder inquiry for the first time, Marshal Guarnaccia enters Florence's shadowy sex trade after a transgender sex worker is killed. An arrest comes quickly, but he believes the police have the wrong person.

Josie and Eileen argue, make up, celebrate birthdays, face a sleepover, and join in a wedding. Their turbulent friendship feels huge to Josie, even when the adults see only small mishaps.

Lonely Irina finds a battered wooden horse in a junk shop and feels sure it needs her. When the horse proves magical, caring for it helps Irina face her sadness and discover her own strength.

A Florentine aristocrat dies in the courtyard of his crumbling family palazzo. The evidence points one way and his relatives another, but Marshal Guarnaccia risks his career to pursue the darker possibility.

A well-known writer lies dead without a mark on her body at the Villa Torrini. Hungry, frustrated, and dealing with a hostile prosecutor, Marshal Guarnaccia follows an old village memory toward the truth.

Christmas brings costumes, school events, handmade gifts, and a panda bear Josie dearly wants. As plans go wrong in familiar Josie fashion, her mum helps the season find its own kind of magic.

Josie faces new puzzles involving Eileen, a red-haired boy, and a busy market trip. Each episode turns an ordinary village day into a small but very serious adventure.

Nothing goes right for Josie, especially when dancing class and a hospital stay loom ahead. With Eileen beside her for tonsil surgery, Josie finds that being brave can still feel very scary.

Marshal Guarnaccia is assigned to a reopened serial-killer case that has terrorized Florence for decades. Out of his usual depth and facing a prosecutor he distrusts, he fights to keep the search for justice honest.

Winter brings worries about wind, snow, a lost pet, and Mum's illness for Josie Smith. Her small fears and big imagination turn three chilly days into warm, reassuring stories.

A famous fashion house founder is kidnapped after being mistaken for her daughter. With ransom forbidden and her family slow to act, Marshal Guarnaccia suspects the crime may be rooted in more than money.

Spring brings fresh problems and discoveries for Josie Smith, from planting a garden to puzzling over Easter eggs. Her kind intentions again lead to funny misunderstandings in this gentle set of everyday adventures.

Long hot days bring fishing, a village fete, and paddling in the river for Josie Smith. Summer should be simple, but Josie's choices, including some painfully small sandals, make it wonderfully complicated.

Carrie keeps seeing a child surrounded by a red glow at her grandmother's house. Exploring the old attic and a family diary draws her into a frightening connection with the house's past.

An elderly woman's complaint about a break-in seems minor until she is found murdered. With other desperate visitors seeking help, Marshal Guarnaccia must decide which overlooked thread leads to a killer.

A young Japanese shoemaker's apprentice is found dead in Florence's Boboli Gardens. Marshal Guarnaccia follows a trail through an exacting workshop, a vanished Carabinieri officer, and the victim's complicated private life.

As Florence empties for summer, a wealthy young single mother is shot at her family's villa. Marshal Guarnaccia must look past the family's polished surface and untangle the resentments, secrets, and ambitions surrounding her death.