{"id":2395,"date":"2021-11-04T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2023-03-11T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:38:32","slug":"nonna-maria-and-the-case-of-the-missing-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the world needs now is more of the delightful Nonna Maria, an elderly widow who\u2019s lived her whole life on the beautiful island of Ischia\u201418 miles from Naples\u2014and is a bit of a legend. As famous for the espresso she brews as the advice she dispenses, she\u2019s known throughout the island and, in turn, seems to know every native. When trouble comes calling, it\u2019s Nonna Maria people turn to for help, trusting her instead of the local carabinieri. More of a \u201cfixer\u201d than your traditional detective, Nonna Maria takes on two cases in this book. In one, a young woman is worried that her fianc\u00e9e isn\u2019t what he seems, and Nonna Maria discretely moves her into hiding while she investigates. In the other, the old captain of a tour boat\u2014and life-long friend of our investigator \u2014is found dead, and Nonna Maria won\u2019t accept that the death of this born sailor was an accident. To fix these problems, the intrepid widow calls on old friends, her parish priest, a nephew, a grandson, and even the head of a Neapolitan crime family, all while sharing with readers the delights of Ischia. Never too cutesy and plenty tough, <strong>Nonna Maria will delight fans of Italian mysteries and cozy enthusiasts who love a good armchair trip.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the world needs now is more of the delightful Nonna Maria, an elderly widow who\u2019s lived her whole life on the beautiful island of Ischia\u201418 miles from Naples\u2014and is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[76,55,67,56],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-cozy","tag-mystery-detective","tag-traditional","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Missing-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Missing.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}