I love this series. This is book three but each book is written so well that you don't need to have read the others. But if you are like me you will want to. I love the way that Lorenzo Carcaterra writes. He has shorter chapters which I love because I like to finish a chapter before I set the book down and this allows me to do some work and then read a little, getting more reading time during the day. I also love how you can see what you are reading in your mind. Lorenzo's description is so real it feels like you are there. Then you have these wonderful characters who you just want to meet and become friends with. Add in a great story and you have a wonderful book.
I hope there are many more Nonna Maria adventures. Huge thank you to Netgalley, Bantam, and Lorenzo Carcaterra for the ARC. This is my honest review.

Lorenzo Carcaterra's stories paying tribute to his grandmother on the southern Italian island of Ischia are an easy sell to followers of other series.

Nonna Maria's Italian dishes paired with red and white wines leave readers salivating the same way Paola Brunetti's family meals tempt readers of Donna Leon's series set in Venice. The descriptive images of both settings leave readers hungry for a trip to Italy.

In this third book of the Nonna Maria series she calls on her old friends to protect the local police chief from Mafiosos. The friends are old but, like Richard Osman's retirees in his Thursday Murder Club series, their skills are not rusty. A retired assassin purrs like a kitten with Nonna but makes bad guys tremble.

While Agatha Christie has Jane Marple knit and sip tea as she unravels mysteries, Nonna Maria cooks and chugs espresso. Each woman has her own style and plenty of fans.

Here's to more stories starring Nonna Maria.

This is the third mystery featuring Nonna Maria and her friends on the island of Ischia. True to her character, Nonna Maria finds a way to involve herself in the death threat against the island's Carbinieri captain as well as solving a decades old mystery surrounding some missing jewels. Plenty of food, friends, and island atmosphere shine through once again. Nonna Maria is a character that isn't easy to forget and has become endeared to her readers. Her simple island wisdom and stories always teach a lesson and her love of her "doctored" coffee and dinner wine is a recurring and familiar theme throughout Carcaterra's books. Another winner in the series. Long live Nonna Maria!