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Book SynopsisAll the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep - John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged, lying cheat of a husband.
Not only is John''s sudden reappearance putting a kink in Poldi''s dreamy love affair with Vito Montana, but his presence also comes with a plea for help - and unwanted clashes with Mafia.
Where is John''s half-brother? What is the ten-million-dollar ''it'' that John''s brother was last seen with that has both the Sicilian and Tanzanian mobs in a frenzy? With only a postcard that has a phone number and a name, ''Handsome Antonio'', on the back, Auntie Poldi hops begrudgingly (albeit with a great deal of gumption and panache) back into the saddle (in this case,
Trade Review
Praise for Mario Giordano * - *
Cross Alexander McCall Smith with Janet Evanovich, add a sensuously imagine Sicilian setting and an exuberant narrator, and you get the feel of Mario Giordano's Auntie Poldi detective books * The Times *
Giordano is a novelist of high skill and originality with an eye for eccentric comedy, idiosyncratic characters and vivid scenes * TLS *
