Description:
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery from the 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?
Brief description:
Jesse Q. Sutanto is the author of romance, mystery novels, romance, and books for children and young adults, including six stand-alone novels and two series, The Aunties and the Theo Tan series. Dial A for Aunties was an NPR best book of the year and an Amazon Editor's Top Pick. Her 2023 novel Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is the basis for a television series to be produced by Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling.
Review Quotes:
"Eunice Wong's brisk performance perfectly suits this humorous yet poignant cozy mystery...Wong manages the large cast--young and old, Chinese, Southeast Asian, South Asian, and American--with plenty of energy and enthusiasm, subtly distinguishing among them...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."
-- "AudioFile"