“From Mangia to Murder: A Sophia Mancini Mystery – Book One”, review by Daniela Domenici
I had the pleasure of “knowing” virtually Caroline Mickelson for the first time less than one month ago when I happened to read her delightful modern fairy tale that I reviewed
This time Caroline tries her hand at a thriller really addictive and exciting that she has set in 1946, after the Second World War, in Little Italy, the Italian-American community in New York, because she dedicates this work “with much love to the memory of his grandfather Raymond J. Minchella , son of Italian immigrants, devoted to family, proud to be an American and extremely kind. ” And all the protagonists, perfectly characterized by the use of cracking pace dialogues, except Captain McIntyre, which is responsible for the investigation and who is Irish, are Italian-American starting from the formidable Sophie Mancini, the heart of the whole story, who improvises herself as detective and succeeds in unraveling the tangled skein of the murder of Vincent, owner of a restaurant, and three attempted murders thanks to her nose but especially to her stubbornness, always surrounded by the love and the warmth of the community , which allows her to bring to justice the two culprits.
Excellent the translation of Alessandra Lorenzoni that makes the book so smooth, despite the various knots of the plot imagined by Caroline and which you will read in one breath.
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