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In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had be

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The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston,Mario Spezi Book Review

Name: California Dreaming
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Read the Book -- on the Flight HOME from Italy
Date: Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014
Review: In the very fine Sci-Fi film "Contact," adapted from the book by Carl Sagan, Jody Foster explains the concept of Occam's Razor to some senator, a senator who understands little about science. She explains her definition as follows: "The simplest solution is the one that is most likely correct." Personally, I prefer the definition, "The theory with the fewest assumptions is almost always correct" myself. Well, "six of one, half dozen of another," I suppose.

Define the concept however you want, but the authors of "The Monster of Florence" (TMOF) -- Doug Preston and Mario Spezi -- while never explicitly writing "Occam's Razor" themselves, obviously want the reader to think about this concept. Over and over. And the reader will. I sure did, as it's almost a theme.

During the timeframe of the murders in which this book covers -- mostly the early to mid-80s, although there was at least one murder in the 60s -- I do remember that, in the US at least, everyone was talking about demonic influences in pop culture. Ozzy Osbourne was biting the heads off of bats, there were Satanic references when playing Led Zeppelin songs backwards, Madonna was telling little girls that it's OK to be a little wh***. (I do believe this last one, as I am not a fan.) But after reading this book, I think that Italians may even be more into ridiculous conspiracy theories than Americans.

And this foolishness made Italians believe that there was a group of Devil-worshipping psychopaths behind the so-called "Monster of Florence Murders." While I had seen one documentary on this serial case before buying the book, I wasn't really much more familiar with it than most Americans. And that is surprising, especially since Americans are so caught up in the "business" of serial killing.

But for anyone who's ever read much about serial killers -- and I've read way more than my fair share, if you peek at my reviews -- you will know that the vast majority of serial killers act alone. Serial killers kill at least three people (some argue two, but that argument is for another day), and if you kill three people and get away with it, usually no one else must know about the murders. After all, if anyone else knows who the killer is, then the killer will be ratted out in a hurry. (Couples such as the "Ken and Barbie" killers -- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka -- are serious outliers, a couple who was a serial-killing tag team.) Therefore, anytime anyone throws out some conspiracy theory in a serial case, it should be taken with a grain of salt. And then just ignored.

But even the Italian police believed some of these theories -- perhaps they didn't, but they sure acted like they did, probably for political survival reasons -- and that is the gist of the book. There is a so-called "Sardinian Trail" theory that the authors push, which is a far better and more believable theory; the old saying "follow the money" should be changed to "follow the gun" after reading this true-crime book. And I believe that the authors use this new expression themselves at one point.

And this book is really good, at least up until the final third, for me. But there is another old saying in journalism that goes something like, "A journalist is supposed to report the news, not make the news," a saying that most journalists have been unfortunately spitting on since at least the days after Watergate. Well, these two authors do "make the news," but not that it was their fault; they were stepping on the toes of the Italian police, and those police more than complained. Mr. Spezi was even jailed, which was a travesty. But I will say that I liked this book way more when it discussed the murders rather than the politics, and I will admit I got a little bored with those politics. (Some people may like this latter part of the book, however.)

The author does bring up the Amanda Knox case in an addendum, and that was interesting for sure. I've always been ambivalent about her innocence or guilt, mostly because I actually don't know much about the evidence. According to this book, that may not be surprising, since the Italians seemingly can not only hide some evidence but hold a prisoner captive without telling her why. But this book will make you at least raise an eyebrow when you see that the Italian police and prosecution might have easily railroaded Ms. Knox, at least from their poor past performance. Well, I am now probably leaning on Ms. Knox's side at this point. (It surely is the case that both the police AND Ms. Knox might be guilty, however, or any other combination. Guilt and innocence are not mutually exclusive to two parties.)

There is one really often-repeated phrase in this fine book that I found hilarious. It is too hard to describe the setup, but the author talks about one of the suspects and his "picknicking friends." Over and over. It is just like when David Letterman is annoyed with something and flogs a dead horse for the whole show; it can be funny, and it surely is funny here.

I've been to Italy a couple of times, and I will give that country a strong recommendation, at least on their sights. And I'll give a strong recommendation on this book. But if you're planning on travelling to Italy, I might recommend reading it on the flight home. If you read it before your section is called leaving an American airport, you might just grab your luggage and drive home.

Name: Laurie Fletcher
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Insanity that can be Italy
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2008
Review: OK. So the fact that the Italian city states weren't unified into the country we know as Italy until 1861 speaks to a lack of historic organizational structure. And there have been more than sixty government changes at the Prime Minister level since World War II. These elements and more could come into play when examining the chaos that is Italy's judiciary. In Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi's non-fiction account of the "Monster" serial killings around Florence in the 1970s and 1980s, we see that something is horribly, stinking rotten in the core of Italian criminal investigation and prosecution that would take an entire armada of sociologists to understand. To say that fantasy and paranoia drive the actions of even the most senior investigators and judges is to give fantasy and paranoia far too good a name. In a nutshell, why bother going to the heart of the investigation by carefully following evidence that leads to a lone suspect who is a textbook model of a serial killer when you could start a witch hunt that would encompass dozens of people (including a whole village) in a charge of murder as a byproduct of Satanic worship? Without a shred of evidence of course. Why bother taking the most obvious road when you could settle grievances going back decades with spurious charges? Why end the investigation quickly when you could drag it out, garner more publicity, and advance your career?

It is interesting to note that Preston became involved only because he was in Italy doing research for one of his fiction thrillers and just happened to rent a farmhouse next to where one of the murders took place. He started asking questions and was connected with Spezi, a seasoned Italian investigative journalist whose beat was these murders of young couples trysting in the hills around Florence. Spezi's part of the story is told first and he and Preston do a nice job of laying out the basic facts, including the puzzling-then-horrifying actions of the police and judiciary. Spezi's work requires fairly detailed explanations of institutions that don't have true parallels in American society and these were efficiently done. Both he and Preston, who is much better recognized for his fiction, know their craft and all of their skills are on display in this book. I was especially impressed with how much care is taken to ensure that we know the murdered couples and their stories.

Once the story is laid out and we know the extremely large cast of characters (it really helps to have most of their pictures in a section in the middle of the book), the real story of Spezi and Preston can be told and, to other liberty and sanity loving Westerners, it emerges as a nightmare worthy of Orwell. After writing vigorously about the disarray in the investigation, Spezi is arrested as a suspected accomplice to the murders and all of his notes and research are taken, including his work on this book. Luckily for him, he was able to hide a disk that contained much of what we read here. Preston's status as a world-famous writer did not protect him here, either. Since he didn't arrive in Italy until 2000, they couldn't charge him with being directly involved in the murders but they were able to charge him as an accomplice after the fact and ban him from returning to Italy.

This is an absorbing read from beginning to end and a story that really needs to be told. And it is a cautionary tale about running afoul of Italian authorities. The truth may not set you free.

Name: Kimber
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting and well written
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2021
Review: Thriller writer Douglas Preston moved his family to the rolling hills of Tuscany in August of 2000 to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in Italy while researching his latest novel. But when he found that the farmhouse they’d rented had been the scene of a grizzly double homicide, his tale took an unanticipated turn. Intrigued, he met with Italian investigative journalist, Mario Spezi.

In 1981, Spezi received a call about a murder. The rest, as they say, is history. The newspaperman dove into the investigation and became the foremost expert on the "Monster" serial killings. Fourteen young people were slaughtered between 1974 and 1985 by the "Monster of Florence" — the name the journalist had given the predator in one of his early articles. Spezi believed that a homicide back in 1968 had started it all - though the police hotly disagreed with his theory.

The first half of this book reads like a fiction novel, a gruesome one, but compelling nonetheless. The history, massacres, investigation fiascos, and endless arrests of innocent people had me glued to the pages. Unfortunately, the book's second half was often like eating crackers in the desert with no water in sight—a bit dry. I finished it, though, because I needed to know what happened - and plenty happened.

As the pair finished writing this book, they were arrested: Preston for obstruction, and Spezi accused of complicity in the monster killings. They had evidently stirred a hornet’s nest with their in-depth research.

The book is well written and includes a plethora of information about Florence and Tuscany. It’s worth a read, and for true-crime fans, The Monster of Florence is bound to be a winner.