by Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi · Grand Central · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780446551694
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«The Monster of Florence» is the true crime chronicle by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, published by Grand Central in paperback, in English.
In 2000, Douglas Preston moves to Florence and meets journalist Mario Spezi, who has spent years investigating the serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Together they reconstruct the murders in Tuscany between 1968 and 1985, the theories about the culprit, and the paranoid police investigation that ends up making them suspects.
In 2010 the book was nominated for the ALCS Dagger for non-fiction. The cover includes the subtitle «A True Story» and mention of a new epilogue.
For readers of true crime and historical non-fiction, especially those seeking real unsolved cases that occurred in Italy.
Douglas Jerome Preston is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child, he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel titled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney called The Jennie Project. Preston has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines.
