Monday, November 25, 2019

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano  346 pp.

After a life in Bavaria with her Sicilian husband, the now widowed Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily to live out her life consuming vast amounts of alcohol and quietly fading away. But her handsome handyman disappears and she finds him dead on the beach. Not one to stand on the sidelines, Poldi engages in the investigation much to the dismay of the local detective in charge. But Poldi has set her sights on the detective as a love interest and no one can resist the quirky 60 year old in a red wig. The story is narrated by Poldi's nephew, an aspiring writer. In real life the author indeed had a Bavarian Auntie Poldi who provided the fuel for this series of light and fun mysteries.

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