Audiobook9 hours
Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
Written by Mario Giordano
Narrated by Matt Addis
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers. 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...
Author
Mario Giordano
MARIO GIORDANO, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Munich. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, his first novel translated into English, was an Indie Next Pick, a Barnes &Noble Discover selection, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Costco Staff Pick. He lives in Berlin.
Related to Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
Titles in the series (4)
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related audiobooks
Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Windsor Knot: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road to Murder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGirl Waits with Gun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deepest Lake Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll the Queen's Men: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unquiet Dead: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder in Chianti Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vineyards of Champagne Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Most Royal: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Most Intriguing Lady: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Under a Red Moon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under Lock & Skeleton Key: A Secret Staircase Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder in the Marais Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Murder at the Mena House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency: Death in Sunset Grove Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notes from an Exhibition: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Rather Curious Engagement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Star Billionaire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Marlow Murder Club Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fear in the Sunlight Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Widows of Malabar Hill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Escape from Sunset Grove Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTea & Treachery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Astronomer in Love Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Mitford Murders: A Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Humor & Satire For You
Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Wishes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Jane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is this Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love and Other Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anxious People: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sh*t My Dad Says Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shopgirl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Big Swiss: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Happy People Are Annoying Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die: Unveiling Death One Question at a Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Soulmate Equation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Black Unicorn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Stay Married Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Harold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swamp Story: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
Rating: 3.7205882294117645 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
34 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The second volume of the Auntie Poldi series was also an amusing read. It is definitely the case that the story lives with Poldi's Bavarian slang, which can hardly be translated into another language without losing its wit.Poldi goes astray and gets involved with a winemaker. After she wakes up the next morning with a hangover, she finds the body of a fortune teller that she had spoken the evening before. Why did this woman have to die? Poldi begins to investigate in her unorthodox way and is always in great danger. Since her relationship with Commissioner Vito Montana is rather on hold, she cannot always count on his help. Poldi soon realizes that the rights of large water resources are at stake. Exposing the wrongdoer is rather difficult.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5cultural-exploration, amateur-sleuth, women-sleuths, murder-investigation, Sicily, verbal-humor, situational-humor, law-enforcement, laugh-out-loud, international-crime-and-mystery ***** More dogged than Miss Marple, more outrageous and funny than Auntie Mame, more conversant with the persona of Death than The Book Thief is our German Sicilian wonder known to her neophyte author/nephew as Auntie Poldi! She is a determined amateur sleuth, a deprived widow, friend to many, frequent nighttime companion to a Sicilian detective inspector, and wearer of impossible wigs. I snorted and chortled and laughed out loud throughout the entire book! That doesn't diminish the murder investigation or the other relevant investigations and the convoluted path those investigations take. The locations and scenery are familiar to those of us who are addicted to the Commissario Montalbano series. There is no way I could decide whether this or the Sicilian Lions is better, only that reading the first is not necessary to enjoyment of this. But it would be fun.John Brownjohn certainly transforms the Sicilian idioms and German storyline into a fantastically fine read.I requested and received a free ebook copy from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via NetGalley. Thank you! !