I didn't think Jesse Q. Sutanto could outdo herself after her Dial A For Aunties series, but somehow, she has in Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers (#1,156). And she's done it featuring an elderly Chinese woman running a tea house in San Francisco's Chinatown which has only one reliable customer a day. That is, until she comes down early one morning from her upstairs apartment to find a dead body sprawled in the middle of her tea shop. Vera finds a flash drive clutched in the dead man's hand and fails to mention it to the police. She decides right then and there to "assist" the police by solving the murder for them. They don't even think it's a murder! Vera knows better and sets out to identify the killer. Somehow, her list of suspects turns into friends she can help with their own problems - too bad one of them will turn out to be the killer!
It's funny, it's touching and it's a darn good mystery! Vera's instincts are right on the money, and oh, the food she cooks! Better have the number of your favorite Chinese restaurant on speed dial while you're reading this one! Ms. Sutanto put her Aunties series on hold to write Vera Wong. I hope there's more to come from Vera in the future! (It would make a great TV series!) Highly recommended!
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