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Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist and author, who has lived in Italy since 1996. She has worked as the Rome bureau chief for Newsweek Magazine and currently holds that position for The Daily Beast. She is an on-air contributor for CNN and a writer for Scientifc American. Barbie’s first book Angel Face about the murder of Meredith Kercher and the criminal trials of Amanda Knox was adapted for film in 2011. Her second book Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast chronicles the tragic journeys of Nigerian women trafficked for sex in Italy.

Books by Barbie Latza Nadeau

The Godmother

An explosive true crime exposé of women's involvement in the mafia through the life of the ruthless Pupetta Maresca ('Lady Camorra') who rose to the very top of the Italian criminal underworld

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