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Convinced the police are moving too slowly, she pockets a piece of evidence and begins her own investigation, drawing the suspects into her orbit.
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Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
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Berkley (Penguin Random House)
Vera Wong is a lonely, overbearing widow running a failing San Francisco tea shop when she finds a dead man on her floor one morning.
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 352
- Format
- Trade paperback original (US first...
- Language
- English
Vera Wong is sixty, widowed, spectacularly nosy, and quite sure she can solve a murder better than the professionals - so when she finds a body in her failing San Francisco tea shop, she treats it less as a tragedy than as a project.
Jesse Q. Sutanto's delightful cozy mystery runs on the comedy of an irrepressible heroine adopting her list of suspects like wayward children, feeding them dumplings while quietly appraising them for guilt.
Beneath the warmth is a nimble whodunit and a genuinely tender story about loneliness and the families we assemble late in life. Sutanto keeps the tone buoyant without cheating the mystery, and Vera herself is an instant classic of the form: exasperating, shrewd and impossible not to love.
For readers who like their crime fiction humane and funny rather than grim, it is close to perfect comfort reading - a book that leaves you happier than it found you, and hungry for tea.
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Pages
352
Published
2023
Berkley (Penguin Random House)
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Format
Trade paperback original (US first...
Language
English
Mystery, Crime & Thriller
ISBN
978-0593549223
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