8/22/2023 0 Comments Katie webber etna maine![]() Over a boozy lunch that the vineyard has laid on for some German tourists who Valérie is hosting, Poldi meets the famous clairvoyant, Madame Sahara and Avola’s nephew, Enzo (a dentist and leading light in Sicily’s branch of the Five Star Movement). Certain that Russo is behind the water to her street being shut off and keen to prove to Montana that he’s connected with the Mafia, Poldi decides to visit the vineyard to see what she can dig up.Īt Etna Rosso, Poldi meets its owner, the sexy Achille Avola, with whom Poldi feels an instant lust-driven connection that Avola seems to reciprocate. The murder weapon was a bottle of wine from the Etna Rosso vineyard and Poldi immediately recognises the label from a map that her nemesis, Italo Russo was discussing with Patanè during her investigations in AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS. Having started out by trying to discover who poisoned Lady, during an evening between the sheets her lover, chief inspector Vito Montana, tells her about his latest investigation – the murder of a district attorney called Elisa Puglisi who was found battered to death in her second home in Acireale. Once there, in between working on his stalled novel (and being schooled by Poldi on the various ways he is failing at life), he learns the story of Poldi’s latest investigation. But when she suffers a couple of setbacks – the poisoning of a beloved local mongrel called Lady who belonged to Poldi’s friend Valérie, the Mafia turning off the water to her street in order to dissuade her from investigating their affairs and a throbbing toothache in an old crown – the narrator’s Aunt Teresa persuades him to abandon his call center job in Germany and go and stay with Auntie Poldi to keep an eye on her in case she relapses. ![]() It’s October, several weeks after AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS.Īuntie Poldi has been enjoying the enhanced social status in Torre Archirafi, Sicily that comes from having solved the murder of her handyman, Valentino, and no longer seems intent on drinking herself to death. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order AUNTIE POLDIE AND THE FRUITS OF THE LORD by Mario Giordano from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes – the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog – is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino’s murder. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. WINE AND MURDER – nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi’s love of the chase.
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