Join us via zoom for our February book club at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 18. Please message me at store (at) auntagathas.com for a zoom link. If you’ve joined us in the past, it’s the same link. We’ll be reading a top 10 pick of mine for 2023, Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. This charming, funny, clever book has also been nominated for and Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category. You can read my review here, and below is the publisher’s description. You can also read my Mystery Scene interview with Ms. Sutanto here. See you in February!
Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…
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’s dating anybody yet).
But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll 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’s down to her to catch the killer.
Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.