"Every word should be savored."—Washington Post Book World
"The best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon Magdalen Nabb and her tremendous creation, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Italian Police in Florence."—Chicago
Tribune
"Exquisite."—The New York Times Book Review
"Nabb continues to extend conventions of the police procedural to suit her own intriguing vision and purpose."—Philadelphia Inquirer