Title: The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Content:  The Monster of Florence: A True Story is a 2008 true crime book by American thriller writer Douglas Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi. It relates to a series of murders that occurred between 1968 and 1985 and involved couples who were killed while having sex in their cars in deserted lanes around the city of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
Title: The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Content:  It recounts the authors' personal experiences while investigating the case and their problems of being accused by the Italian criminal justice system. Preston and Spezi are outspoken critics of the tactics and theories pursued by the Italian police and prosecutors in the Monster of Florence case. The book is stated as being an english translation of Spezi and Preston's Italian language book, [ ]] (Sweet hills of blood) published two years earlier by Preston's Italian publisher, Sonzogno in 2006. Spezi wrote the majority of the Italian manuscript published in 2006 (Dolci colline di sangue) and Preston wrote the english 'translation' while back in the US. There are however, notable differences between the two editions: Chapter 28 in the Italian 
Title: The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Content:  Preston, an author of fiction and non-fiction books, moved to Florence with his family and became interested in the Monster of Florence case because the murders had taken place in the surrounding countryside. Mario Spezi, co-author of the book, is a journalist who specialized in the Monster of Florence case for many years. Preston and Spezi became friends and then collaborated on articles and books about the case. Both became figures in the case when the Italian prosecutors came to suspect them and accuse them of crimes including obstruction of justice and potentially being accomplices to murder. Preston published an article about the case in American magazine The Atlantic in 2006.
Title: Monster of Florence
Content:  Mostro. Writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie purchased the screen rights to the book. ; In 2009, a six-part television film, Il mostro di Firenze, was produced and broadcast by Fox Crime. ; The 2011 e-book The True Stories of the Monster Of Florence by Jacopo Pezzan and Giacomo Brunoro (April 2011) gives a detailed account of all the murders and the different investigative theories. ; The 2012 book Delitto degli Scopeti – Giustizia mancata (The Scopeti Crime – Failed Justice), written by lawyer Vieri Adriani, Francesco Cappeletti, and Salvatore Maugeri, reanalyzes and reconstructs the final pair of murders, which took place in the town of 
Title: Monster of Florence
Content:  starring Corinne Cléry and Christian Borromeo inspired by the case. ; The 1996 book The Monster Of Florence by Magdalen Nabb doubted Pacciani as Il Mostro and was based on actual and extensive case documents, including the criminal profile report commissioned from the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. Although the book is a work of fiction, Nabb states that the investigation in the novel was real and the presentation as fiction was a protective measure. ; The 1999 novel Hannibal, the 2001 film adaptation, and the television adaption have all used the Il Mostro case as the basis for a sub-plot of 
Title: Monster of Florence
Content: The Monster of Florence, a 1983 non-fiction book by Mario Spezi. A 1986 Italian film of the same name written and directed by Cesare Ferrario, and co-written by Fulvio Ricciardi. ; Il mostro di Firenze, a 1986 film based on the case. ; L'assassino è ancora tra noi (The Murderer Is Still Free Among Us), an Italian giallo loosely based on the case, was filmed soon after one of the murders and also released in 1986. It was written and directed by Camillo Teti, and co-written by Giuliano Carnimeo and Ernesto Gastaldi. ; Paolo Frajoli and Gianni Siragusa's 28° minuto (1991) is a 
Title: Monster of Florence
Content:  of French tourists Kraviechvili and Mauriot. The book claims to expose missteps and procedural errors in the investigation. ; In "Il Mostro", the second episode of Season 2 of the television series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, the Monster of Florence is identified as a surgeon (played by Paul Sorvino). Suspected of being the Monster after the murders, he left Florence and continued to kill elsewhere in Europe, and in Asia. Now terminally ill, he returns to Florence and manipulates his son (played by Luca Malacrino), the product of an incestuous rape between the Monster and his own sister, into becoming a copycat killer. 
Title: Monster of Florence
Content:  had a 20-years career in the Army when he left it to move to Florence in 1974. Francesco Amicone, the author of inquiry, wrote an account of a Bevilacqua's partial admission, in which he would have confessed to Amicone to being responsible of the murders attributed to the Zodiac killer and the Monster of Florence in an unregistered conversation occurred on 11 September 2017. After the release of the first part of the inquiry in May 2018, Bevilacqua denied his admission; even though he threatened him with a lawsuit, Amicone did not stop to accuse him. In 2021, Amicone reported that Bevilacqua would have been an undercover CID 
Title: The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Content:  In late 2008, film studio United Artists announced its purchase of the film rights to The Monster of Florence: a True Story. In 2010 the project was acquired by Fox 2000 and is in development, with George Clooney attached as producer as well as to play the role of Preston.
Title: Monster of Florence
Content:  on the DVD. In the third season of the television series, it is implied that Hannibal himself (Mads Mikkelsen) was Il Mostro. ; The 2006 book Dolci colline di sangue(Sweet hills of blood) by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi casts doubts on the culpability of Pacciani as Il Mostro. Writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie purchased the screen rights to the book. ; The 2008 book The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi is the english translation of the 2006 Italian language book 'Dolci colline di sangue' with some revision and additions, casts doubts on the culpability of Pacciani as 

Question: Who is the author of The Monster of Florence: A True Story?
Answer: Douglas Preston.
Douglas Jerome Preston.
Douglas J. Preston.