Publisher's Synopsis
THIRST AND MURDER - IN OTHER WORDS, MY AUNTIE POLDI'S TWO PET HATES. THEY UPSET HER INNER EQUILIBRIUM EVEN MORE THAN THE SIGHT OF A HANDSOME, IMMACULATELY TURNED-OUT SICILIAN TRAFFIC COP. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Auntie 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 when a new murder investigation is added to the mix, trouble will surely follow...
