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* SymbolicBlood: The killer spills a pot of tomato sauce on the floor while murdering the victim.
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* TheMafia: Involves a family feud between Southern Italian families with connections to organised crime. This being Australia, where Sicilians were relatively thin on the ground, the relevant Italian gang is the Neapolitan Camorra rather than the Mafia, but all the classic Mafia tropes (family connections, blood feuds, smuggling, sharp suits, Catholicism, great food and wine) are played to the hilt.
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* AssholeVictim: Surprisingly, the little old Italian grandmother who's murdered turns out to be a tyrannical, conniving old harpy who [[spoiler:contracted at least one murder herself.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: We see the VictimOfTheWeek drop dead after being choked, but [[spoiler:it later turns out she actually died from having unknowingly eaten deathcap mushrooms earlier, which happened to suddenly kill her exactly while she was attacked. In real life, deathcaps cause the victim to be violently ill shortly after ingestion, and it can take days before death actually occurs.]]
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The murder of an Italian grandmother in her restaurant kitchen sets more than spaghetti sauce simmering, as two rival immigrant families juggle the demands of cooking, love, and an Italian crime syndicate.
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The murder of an Italian grandmother in her restaurant kitchen sets more than spaghetti sauce simmering, as two rival immigrant families juggle the demands of cooking, love, and an Italian crime syndicate.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana are romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Nonna Luisa was, BeneathTheMask of the sweet GrannyClassic, an [[EvilMatriarch objectively awful person[[, but she was definitely formidable - she put up a significant fight against [[spoiler: Vincenzo]], a strong young man, and she was no stranger to hiring killers.
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler: Roberto Salvatore]] kept fanning the flames of the feud.
* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that [[spoiler: Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right]].
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler: Roberto Salvatore]] kept fanning the flames of the feud.
* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that [[spoiler: Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right]].
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Nonna Luisa was, BeneathTheMask of the sweet GrannyClassic, an [[EvilMatriarch objectively awful person[[, person]], but she was definitely formidable - she put up a significant fight against [[spoiler: Vincenzo]], Vincenzo, a strong young man, and she was no stranger to hiring killers.
* PlayingBothSides:[[spoiler: Roberto Salvatore]] Salvatore kept fanning the flames of the feud.
* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that[[spoiler: Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right]].right.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that
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* AbusiveParents: Nonna Luisa was an abusive grandmother and, implicitly, mother too - Guido bitterly observes that she didn't even cry when his wife, her daughter, died. She also beat her granddaughter with a rolling pin for anything up to and including imperfectly cutting the garlic, and was prepared to have her murdered if she didn't obey.
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Phryne and Jack, by this point.
* EvilMatriarch: Nonna Luisa, to the point of being an AssholeVictim.
* GracefulLoser: Guido ruefully concedes his interest in Phryne after she gently lets him down following their one night, correctly guessing that there's someone else and remarking that that person is a lucky man. Likewise, Concetta sadly acknowledges that while Jack cares for her very much, he's interested in someone else (and it's pretty clear that she's worked out it's Phryne).
* NeverMessWithGranny: Nonna Luisa was, BeneathTheMask of the sweet GrannyClassic, an [[EvilMatriarch objectively awful person[[, but she was definitely formidable - she put up a significant fight against [[spoiler: Vincenzo]], a strong young man, and she was no stranger to hiring killers.
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler: Roberto Salvatore]] kept fanning the flames of the feud.
* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that [[spoiler: Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right]].
* SympatheticMurderer: It is really hard to blame Mariana for lashing out after a lifetime of physical and mental abuse, especially when faced with being exiled back to a village in a country she only nominally comes from, away from her beloved, and faced with the prospect of being murdered herself on her own grandmother's orders if she didn't obey.
* EvilMatriarch: Nonna Luisa, to the point of being an AssholeVictim.
* GracefulLoser: Guido ruefully concedes his interest in Phryne after she gently lets him down following their one night, correctly guessing that there's someone else and remarking that that person is a lucky man. Likewise, Concetta sadly acknowledges that while Jack cares for her very much, he's interested in someone else (and it's pretty clear that she's worked out it's Phryne).
* NeverMessWithGranny: Nonna Luisa was, BeneathTheMask of the sweet GrannyClassic, an [[EvilMatriarch objectively awful person[[, but she was definitely formidable - she put up a significant fight against [[spoiler: Vincenzo]], a strong young man, and she was no stranger to hiring killers.
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler: Roberto Salvatore]] kept fanning the flames of the feud.
* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved, but keeping it a secret because their families have been business competitors for generations. The reason for this is that [[spoiler: Papa Antonio, Lorenzo's grandfather, and Nonna Luisa, Mariana's grandmother, were this in their own right]].
* SympatheticMurderer: It is really hard to blame Mariana for lashing out after a lifetime of physical and mental abuse, especially when faced with being exiled back to a village in a country she only nominally comes from, away from her beloved, and faced with the prospect of being murdered herself on her own grandmother's orders if she didn't obey.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Mariana, regularly beaten by her grandmother with a rolling pin, is the one who adds the poisonous mushrooms to her grandmother's food, thus killing her.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Lorenzo and Mariana romantically involved but keeping it a secret because their families are business competitors.
