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Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to.
Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer.
What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?
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- ISBN: 9780593675366
- File size: 307930 KB
- Duration: 10:41:31
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June 10, 2024
Sixty-year-old Vera Wong runs on routine. She wakes up before 5 a.m. every day, takes her daily walk, judges her frenemy in the pastry store next door, and opens her failing tea shop. But when she stumbles on a corpse in the middle of her shop one morning, everything is turned upside down, and her tiny world gets a lot bigger. Deciding that she would do a better job investigating this murder than the police, Vera starts her own probe and soon becomes entangled in the lives of her young murder suspects. Sutanto (Dial A for Aunties) is back with another fun, quirky mystery set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Balancing both suspicion and affection, Eunice Wong nails Vera's domineering yet kind personality with her deft narration. VERDICT Beyond an enjoyable mystery, this book succeeds in offering some laugh-out-loud moments, sweet displays of intergenerational friendship, and food descriptions that will leave listeners' mouths watering. Fans of Sutanto's previous light mysteries will enjoy this latest installment.--Laura Hammond
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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