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Sto caricando le informazioni... Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (edizione 2023)di Jesse Q. Sutanto (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Cozy mystery... Lots of tea and comfort food. I'm hungry now. ( ) Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers contains all the right ingredients for the perfect cozy mystery, and we were lucky enough to listen to the audiobook narrated by the very talented actress Eunice Wong. The first cozy mystery must-have is an engaging and memorable lead, and Jesse Sutanto has absolutely delivered on that score with Vera Wong. Yes, she’s the quintessential Chinese tiger mother with unrelenting standards, but I think no matter our cultural background, many of us will have lived experience of a matriarch that rules with a sharp tongue and iron-will. Objectively, they can be rude and exasperating at times. But in spite of this, you have to admire their resilience and dogged determination. Especially when you realise, as readers do in Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, that deep down that iron-will is fuelled by love and a need to derive purpose. And Vera shows her love through tea and food. There is not a situation that she does not have a tea or food remedy for. Beware, the frequent and fulsome descriptions of food within this story are mouth-watering! Secondly, you need a cast of ensemble characters that add layering and depth, and all importantly, spark humour with their interactions with your lead character. Sutanto delivers on that score also. Continue reading: https://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/2024/05/vera-wongs-unsolicited-advice-for-m... This is perhaps the most fun mystery I've read in a long time. Vera Wong, proprietor of "Vera Wang's World Famous Teahouse" in Chinatown, only has one regular customer these days. The place is run-down and a bit grimy. She's lonley, and her son doesn't seem to spend much time with her. She's surprised when she goes down one morning and finds a corpse in her tea room. Before the police arrive, she very helpful outlines the corpse's body in Sharpie and takes the only piece of evidence that might make the police think it is murder. She has watched this on TV. How hard can it be? The perpetrator is likely to revisit the scene of the crime. She immediately comes up with suspects--a man saying he is a reporter, a woman saying she has a true crime podcast, the man's brother, and the man's widow who was accompanied by their small daughter. She begins her process of elimination. Readers (and listeners) will be amused by the story as it unfolds. As Vera gets to know her suspects, she doesn't really want it to be any of them. I figured it out early on A stranger is found dead in Vera’s World Famous Tea House which is old, shabby and only visited by one old man. Vera is a busy body who decides she will help the police solve the murder. And while doing so she creates relationships and helps a verity of lost young adults. Fun and the Audible reader was terrific. Well this was fun. Vera Wong is a 60ish woman who owns a teashop in San Francisco's Chinatown. She spends more time trying to micromanage her grown son than she spends dealing with the very occasional patron at her teashop. When she discovers a dead body in the shop one morning, Vera decides to help the police solve what she's sure is a murder. She helpfully draws an outline of the body on the floor with a sharpie and steals the flash drive the dead man has in his hand. Soon she's in full detective mode and narrows her suspects list to four people. She brings them together and tries to determine which is the killer. Before long the group has become friends and Vera begins to dread that one of her new friends might be a killer. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 Franciscos 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 doesnt 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? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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