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The Blurb On The Back:
WINE AND MURDER - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi’s love of the chase.
Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.
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.
Poldi has tasted blood. No one is above suspicion. And trouble will surely follow …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The second in Mario Giordano’s AUNTIE POLDI SERIES (energetically translated from German by John Brownjohn) is a rollicking crime novel packed with humour, passion and more twists than you can shake a stick at. Poldi is a great creation - a 60-something alcoholic with a death wish who’s lust for life is reinvigorated by her investigations - such that you can’t help root for her. I hadn’t read the first book but I will definitely be doing so.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.
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.
Poldi has tasted blood. No one is above suspicion. And trouble will surely follow …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The second in Mario Giordano’s AUNTIE POLDI SERIES (energetically translated from German by John Brownjohn) is a rollicking crime novel packed with humour, passion and more twists than you can shake a stick at. Poldi is a great creation - a 60-something alcoholic with a death wish who’s lust for life is reinvigorated by her investigations - such that you can’t help root for her. I hadn’t read the first book but I will definitely be doing so.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
