3.5 - A cute little murder mystery starring an eccentric older-ish German woman retires to Sicily to peacefully drink herself to death. Her sisters devise a plan to move her nephew (an aspiring writer) in with her periodically. He serves as somewhat of a narrator throughout the book, adding in silly excerpts from his own novel that tie in parts of his Aunt Poldi's story. During her downward spiral, a young man that runs errands for her disappears, and she discovers his body on a beach a few days later. A long story of possible mafia ties, decades old love triangles, strange love of awful German poetry, and a sad, tragic love affair with a Sicilian detective make this a cozy little murder mystery.