Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily from Munich, to drink and enjoy flirting with men. When her handyman disappears she decides to investigate and finds him murdered and a gruesome murder it is. She continues to ask questions, getting on the nerves of the investigator (and me too). Soon she is traveling all over the place to get to the bottom of it all. So much for a quiet retirement. I enjoyed the descriptiveness of the locations but that is about it. I didn’t really care about Aunt Poldi and her exploits and the rest of the characters did anything for me. I really tried to get into the story and continued on. Although I finished reading it, I didn’t care for it at all. Maybe it was the translation or the cultural differences but this was not for me.