Paperback: Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he is dating anybody yet).
But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it is going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things.
Knowing she will 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 decides it is down to her to catch the killer.
Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth in Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023). Vera Wong will be made into a television series with Warner Bros soon.
About the author: Jesse Q Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She is the award-winning, bestselling author of adult, YA, and children's middle grade books. She has a Masters in creative writing from Oxford University, though she has yet to figure out how to say that without sounding obnoxious. The film rights to her women's fiction, the first instalment in The Aunties series, Dial A for Aunties (2021), was bought by Netflix in a competitive bidding war.
Jesse has forty-two first cousins and thirty aunties and uncles. She lives in Indonesia with her husband, her two daughters, and her ridiculously large extended family, many of whom live just down the road.
Find her on Twitter @thewritinghippo, Instagram @jesseqsutanto and Tiktok @authorjesseqsutanto.
Rating: 5/5
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