**The latest installment in Mario Giordano's best-selling series of
charming mysteries, starring Sicily's most glamorous gumshoe, Auntie
Poldi.
**All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian
retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of
wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito 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 Montana, but his presence also comes with a plea for
help--and unwanted clashes with the Mafia.
Where is John's half-brother? What is the ten-million-dollar "it" that
John's brother was last seen with, which has both the Sicilian and the
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, an immaculate red Maserati Cabrio from
the eighties with cream leather upholstery). The faster she finds
Handsome Antonio, the sooner she can get John Owenya out of her hair and
her love life. But the people Poldi discovers along the way may very
well knock her immaculate wig askew.
