I enjoyed reading this first adventure of this series! I was giggling and caught up in the characters and mystery. This was a fresh and giggle worthy take to the cozy mystery genre!

I like the wit the writer has used writing it. Humour and a good mystery, it’s the perfect combination.

If you'd have told me when I was 10% through this book that I would end up enjoying it, I'd have thought you were crazy.

If you'd have told me when I was 40% through this book that I would end up enjoying it, I still would have thought you were crazy.

As it is, I pushed through, and I ended up really enjoying it. It picked up about 60% of the way through and ended up being really entertaining. The last half of the book I could hardly put down. The plot picked up, there was a sense of suspense, and there was a real sense of mystery to it.

In the beginning, some of the characters make crazy, weird decisions that I really struggled to understand. And there were so many characters that it took me a while to get them all straight (and, to be honest, I still couldn't tell you which cousin belonged to which aunt and uncle, etc.).

But overall, it made sense. Characters' motivations started making more sense, the dialogue got more believable, and it ended up being a good story. I just wish it hadn't taken so long for it to get there.

I don't know if I liked this book or not.
The plot was nice but I'm a bit biased as the description of Italian people was really over the top (I'm Italian).
I supposed it'd be appreciated by non Italian people.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley

Delayed Death By Beate Boeker is a first in a new series.
This is also a new author for me.

This is a funny, colorful cozy mystery, filled with hysterical characters, a good murder plot and a bit of romance on the side.
Carlina owns Temptations, a high end lingerie shop in Florence, Italy.
Carlina is also part of a huge Italian family, that lives in the same home and shares many meals together.
The book opens on the morning of a wedding, Carlina's cousin is getting married.
When their grandfather doesn't answer his door, Carlina expects to find him in one of his odd moods, citing some bizarre reason why he can't attend the wedding.
Unfortunately for Carlina, that's not the case, instead of finding her grandfather refusing to go to the wedding, she finds him slumped on a chair, dead.
When Emma, the bride, happens upon the scene, she screams and throws a fit that grandfather has ruined her wedding day.

Emma comes up with a plan, not a good one, but a plan none the less.
Once the wedding is over, the plan is to "find" grandfather and mourn his passing.

As we cozy mystery readers know, it's never that simple and when the plan spirals out of control, Carlina finds herself stuck in the middle of a murder investigation.

I really enjoyed the story and I look forward to reading more in this series.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book provided by the publisher and NetGalley.

This book was one I could not finish when they were carrying around a corpse I had to stop reading.

I do not understand the type of love Caroline had for her grandfather, when she was so easily convinced by her cousin for them to hide his death from the rest of the family, by placing his body in his bed like he wasn’t up to attending the wedding, until his twin went to wake him after the wedding and got the surprise of his life, that was utterly deceitful of Carolina, Emma, and a bit selfish, I believe. What a shameful thing for Caroline to condone but the Mantonies are a weird bunch it seems, Because of her lies to the Police. Carolina now has to deal with the fallout of that, she has now become their number one suspect in the murder of her grandfather, what would be the odds of that, A bunch of erratics and crazies these Mantonies are but they are the life of the book, giving it all the juices for the making of a delicious delight. The storyline is an engaging and intriguing one and the characters blend well, a bit of comedy mixed with murder makes for an interesting and entertaining package.

I did not finish this book. Once people start carrying around corpses for convenience, I am done.

Locker-leichte Unterhaltung zum einfach so weglesen - ein bisschen Spannung, ein bisschen Humor und ein Schuß netter Liebesgeschichte. Macht Lust auf mehr.

This was a good little mystery. Very enjoyable and fun to read the antics of the family.

Carlina is part of a very large family. When her grandfather is found dead right before a cousin's wedding, her and her cousin decide to hide him in bed so the wedding won't be ruined. Only, she forgets about him and later the police are called as her great uncle suspects something is wrong with the way the body was in bed. Well, he is right, it was murder, and the murderer won't stop there.

I didn't even suspect the murderer so it was a surprise to me when they were revealed.

Reminiscent of my big fat Greek wedding this book is my big fat Italian murder. Set in Florence it is a funny tale of a crazy family during a murder (or two)...good for a quick read that will make you shake your head and wonder why Caroline wanted to live with all of her family!

Liked this book and will be looking for more in the series - wish it were published by larger press so I could carry more in my store - will be recommending to my cozy readers

This book initially appealed to me because of the very large and very interesting Mantoni family. I am an only child of only children and while my family is quite small, I have always been drawn to large families, who given all their individual quirks, somehow manage to get along. In the book description, the author states that a relative's death will be concealed so as not to ruin a bride's wedding day. I couldn't picture this being anything but a fun read involving a quirky family and Beate Boeker didn't let me down.
While at first glance, the death seems natural and the decision to delay reporting it makes some kind of strange sense, it doesn't strike Carlina as a really bad decision. However, once it is revealed that this death was in fact, murder, well things quickly spiral out of control. When Carlina becomes a suspect, her interactions with Commissario Garini unfold and sparks fly between them. This was a fun, engaging read that had me laughing at how the Mantoni family dealt with this death, and with all the potential suspects, it wasn't easy to figure out who was responsible for the crime.
Thank you, Beate Boeker, Kobe Writing Life and NetGalley for the digital copy to read and review. I look forward to seeing how much more mayhem and murder befalls this family.

I really enjoyed this book. I was pretty sure who did it pretty much right away but it was still fun to read. I will definitely look for the rest of the books in the series. It was a fairly light murder mystery with some witty dialogue and great characters. I like that the budding romance has not quite taken off at the end of the book, leaving room for the main characters to develop their relationship over time.