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Author:

Giordano, Mario, 1963- author.

Title:

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions / Mario Giordano ; translated by John Brownjohn.

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

346 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Widows--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Fate and fatalism--Fiction.
FICTION--Amateur Sleuth.--Amateur Sleuth.
FICTION--General.--General.
FICTION--Humorous.
FICTION--Amateur Sleuth.--Amateur Sleuth.
FICTION--Women Sleuths.--Women Sleuths.
TRAVEL--Europe--Italy.
Man-woman relationships.
Murder--Investigation.
Widows.
Sicily (Italy)--Fiction.
Italy--Sicily.
Detective and mystery stories.
Amateur sleuth mystery.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Humorous fiction.

Other Authors:

Brownjohn, John, translator.

Other Titles:

Tante Poldi und die sizilianischen Löwen. English

Notes:

"First published in German as Tante Poldi und die sizilianishen Löwen by Bastei Lübbe AG, Köln, 2015"--Title page verso.

Summary:

Recently widowed Auntie Poldi moves to Sicily in order to drink herself comfortably to death with a sea view. But fate intervenes when she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, and becomes a potential murder suspect. Poldi falls for the gorgeous Commissario Montana and they soon form an investigative -- and romantic -- partnership -- Source other than Library of Congress.

ISBN:

1328863573
9781328863577

OCLC:

(OCoLC)936144450

LCCN:

2016438626

Locations:

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)