November 1, 2024
Sutanto offers a sequel to the award-winning and bestselling Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. After solving a murder in her teahouse, Vera's life has been good, if boring. When she encounters a young woman looking for her missing friend, who's a jet-setting social media influencer, Vera is on the case. Prepub Alert.
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February 1, 2025
Prodigious Sutanto presents a second delicious serving of her Vera Wong mysteries, spotlighting the eponymous sprightly sexagenarian tea caf� proprietor whose meddling is driven as much by relentless kindness as by insatiable curiosity. Vera began extending her family in Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) and continues to lure, and nourish, more lost souls into her toothsome fold. The lynchpin here is Thomas, aka Xander, a young man with a (social media-ed) perfect life who turns up dead, allegedly by suicide. His friend Millie misses him most. His girlfriend, Aimes, seems well, aimless. His manager TJ's business is tanking. His grandfather Qiang Wen is lonelier than ever. Vera's heartstrings--and her irresistible pork buns--reel them in, not only for her unconditional care, but they also happen to be her primary suspects. Meanwhile, Vera's next-door nemesis Winifred has claimed a Korean ancestor in order to justify her Chinese bakery's transformation into a K-destination for kimchi croissants. Not everything is delicious (there are elder-targeting scams, toxic social media, and modern slave trafficking) but Sutanto manages to craft another sumptuous, mysterious feast.
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