Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
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Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view. But fate intervenes. When she finds a corpse on the beach, she becomes a potential suspect in the murder case and falls in love with the police detective in charge. A zany, comic mystery laced with Italian sensuality and humor.
If Alexander McCall Smith and Anthony Bourdain collaborated on a Sicilian murder mystery laced with wit, food and sex, this would be the result.
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Mario Giordano. (2016). Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. Bitter Lemon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Mario Giordano. 2016. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. Bitter Lemon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. Bitter Lemon Press, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Mario Giordano. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. Bitter Lemon Press, 2016.
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Mario Giordano: Mario Giordano, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Munich in 1963 and studied psychology at the University of Düsseldorf. He writes novels, books for adolescents, and screenplays. He lives in Cologne. Auntie Poldi is his first mystery novel.
John Brownjohn: John Brownjohn lives in Dorset in the UK. His work has won him critical acclaim and numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (three times), the US Pen, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Marcel Beyer's The Karnau Tapes amd Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us. - name: Mario Giordano
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July 18, 2016
Giordano’s winning debut and series launch unleashes 60-year-old Isolde “Poldi” Oberreiter, the daughter of a Munich police detective, on the unsuspecting populace of the Sicilian village Torre Archirafi, where the fiercest conflicts center on where to buy the best fish, or whether coffee should be drunk solely as a sugar delivery system. Poldi, who was once married to the anonymous narrator’s late uncle, arrives as a depressed retiree intending to drink herself to death. But she changes her mind after she decides to investigate the shotgun murder of 19-year-old Valentino Candela, whose body she finds on a beach. Poldi, who has a weakness for good-looking policemen, enlists the aid of a reluctant police detective, Vito Montana, who knows all too well that powerful local figures are best left undisturbed, regardless of the crime. Despite some clunky moments, such as the recurring appearance of the figure of Death, Poldi’s pursuit of Valentino’s killers is done with breezy good humor. Wry, appreciative observations of Sicilian food, people, and history herald a series worth tracking.
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Starred review from July 15, 2016
An ex-pat from Munich finds love and murder in Sicily.When Isolde Oberreiter decides at age 60 to move from Munich to Sicily "to drink herself comfortably to death with a sea view," her decision makes a crazy kind of sense. Winters in Munich are not for the faint of heart. Her ex-husband, Peppe, now deceased, was from Catania, and his three sisters, Luisa, Teresa, and Caterina, welcome her to join them there. But Isolde, known to her family as Poldi, always flies to her own compass. Instead of Catania, she buys a villa in tiny Torre Archirafi, down the street from the Bar-Gelateria Cocuzza . Because even intrepid Poldi can't manage a villa on her own, she recruits Valentino Candela, a local jack-of-all-trades, to help with the restoration. Valentino is a great worker until he disappears. Suspecting foul play, Poldi invades Femminamorta, a local estate Valentino mentioned just before vanishing. Valerie Raisi di Belfiore, the estate's young owner, takes to Poldi, inviting her to dinner with her elderly cousin, Domenico Pastorella di Belfiore, owner of a still larger estate. Charmed as she is by Sicilian high society, Poldi isn't getting any closer to finding Valentino. And she isn't finding people with whom she really clicks--that is, until she crosses paths with police detective Vito Montana. Poldi is an irresistible newcomer with a mature voice and a vision of who she is and who she never will be, not afraid to take chances, and willing to fail. She's grateful to the universe for what it offers and accepting when it doesn't provide more. A drama queen who isn't fooled by her own production, she knows the value of living deeply. Giordano's wit and his formidable heroine's wisdom combine to make this debut a smash.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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