The Monster of Florence (CD-Audio)

from PirateJenny

America isn't the only place with serial killers. But for some reason, the story of the Monster of Florence didn't make it over here until a U.S. writer ended up involved. I'd heard about this story a year or two ago when I saw it on Dateline. Honestly, the judicial system there makes ours look s...

from Niecierpek

Douglas Preston, a crime novelist and creator of Detective Pendergast, fell in love with Italy when he was thirteen, and since then has always dreamed of living there. Little did he know that when fulfilling his childhood dream thirty years later, he would get involved in the true crime story of ...

from nemoman

Preston moves to Florence with a plot for a murder mystery. He contacts Spezi, a writer and expert, inter alia, on Italian police procedures, for information to use in his novel. He then gets caught up in Spezi's obsession with a real life serial murder mystery - the monster of Florence. This non...

from PirateJenny

America isn't the only place with serial killers. But for some reason, the story of the Monster of Florence didn't make it over here until a U.S. writer ended up involved. I'd heard about this story a year or two ago when I saw it on Dateline. Honestly, the judicial system there makes ours look s...

from TheCriticalTimes

Written as a blend between a travelogue, a documentary about Italy's justice system and a personal diary, this book is clearly just as much about Douglas Preston as it is about the Monster of Florence. This is not a bad thing in the least and you have to admire the frequent nods to fellow author ...