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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Mario Giordano
Bitter Lemmon Press
September 2016
On Sale: September 13, 2016
Featuring: Auntie Poldi; Commissario Montana
320 pages
ISBN: 1908524693
EAN: 9781908524690
Kindle: B01CIR4UU8
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Mystery
This is the first novel in a charming new mystery series set
in Sicily and laced with Italian sensuality and humor. It
features an amateur sleuth, the sassy and foul-mouthed
Auntie Poldi. Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly
drink herself to death with a sea view, but fate intervenes.
When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his
face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a
potential suspect in his murder case. Poldi soon falls for
the gorgeous Commissario Montana who has been assigned to
lead the case. They form an investigative—and
romantic—partnership. The delightful details of this
romance, and the extreme awkwardness of Poldi's retelling it
to her mortified nephew, are some of the novel's many high
points. Sicily, a vivid backdrop, is an island of people obsessed
with food. They talk passionately about which remote village
produces the best olives, pistachio ice cream, oyster
mushrooms, mandarins, and marzipan, and about which
restaurant serves the best pasta al nero di sepia or
canolli a la crema di ricotta. And there is never a
direct reference to the mafia ("an invention of those
fascists in the North"), even when confronted with murders
committed with sawn-off shotguns.
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