Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
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Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery
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 Francisco’s 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 doesn’t 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?
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This had so much potential! I really liked Vera; she was adorable, funny, and sometimes overbearing. So the multiple POVs, which weren't nearly distinct enough to give the characters their own voices, just robbed pages I could've spent in Vera's head. I didn't need the romance part, and the forced cozy found family trope unnecessarily distracted from the case.
This was an absolute banger of an audiobook! First I was sceptical with the main character, but soon you will fall in love with all of them. Vera is an old, chinese woman, her husband already died and her son is out and about. She has her own tea shop. Everything is fine until she finds a dead man in her shop. She is convinced that this was murder, but the police does think differently, so she decides to take the case into her own hands. With that, a lot of new people come into her life. The way how the people interact, the conversations and ALL THE EMOTIONS omg It is just wholesome and so human. Funny but also mysterious. A cozy lovely mystery. Perfect for autumn
dnf after 20% this not witty this is petty and dumb. no character I meet in these pages is likeable or funnily unlikeable. The main character is so infuriating noisy and full of herself, I asked myself what is wrong with her or myself. I am now debating if I ever will want to read any book of this author.
This book was absolutely wholesome yet a little hurtful to read at the same time. My absolute favorite part about the book is definitely how all of them found each other. And that way became a little family. They all started out in a pretty dark place in their life, hopeless and stuck. However something as "tragic" as Marshall's death led to something so positive. I found it so interesting to get to know these characters better and experience, how they got their life back together. In which Vera actually played a not so irrelevant part. Making sure everybody's well fed of course, while also kind of forcing them to spend time together over and over again . The murder - mystery aspect made the book even more enjoyable to read and I honestly did not expect the end at all!
Dramedy with a decent mystery, thin line between comical and stereotypical, entertaining but predictable.
“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.” “If only every bad thing in life could be removed just by mopping it away.” “You been standing there for exactly four minutes. I think this unusual behavior, even for a millennial.” “Does that sound ridiculous?” “Yes. But that’s okay, I do a lot of crazy things too.”
This is easily one of my favorite books of this year! I never had ab book made me laugh as much as this one :) Vera is such an interesting character and all of the other cast is lovely. The mystery aspect is written so lovely and the story is much more than just solving it. I recommend this to anyone open to a heartwarming mystery!
Ich war ein wenig skeptisch, nachdem mir das letzte Buch aus der Aunties-Reihe von ihr nicht so gefallen hatte. Aber dieser Roman ist ihr wieder richtig gut gelungen. Es ist eine Story fürs Herz mit absolut liebenswerten Charakteren und vielen, vielen lustigen, aber auch ein paar traurigen Momenten. Über das Ende kann man diskutieren, aber ich fand es ok.
Description
Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery
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 Francisco’s 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 doesn’t 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?
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This had so much potential! I really liked Vera; she was adorable, funny, and sometimes overbearing. So the multiple POVs, which weren't nearly distinct enough to give the characters their own voices, just robbed pages I could've spent in Vera's head. I didn't need the romance part, and the forced cozy found family trope unnecessarily distracted from the case.
This was an absolute banger of an audiobook! First I was sceptical with the main character, but soon you will fall in love with all of them. Vera is an old, chinese woman, her husband already died and her son is out and about. She has her own tea shop. Everything is fine until she finds a dead man in her shop. She is convinced that this was murder, but the police does think differently, so she decides to take the case into her own hands. With that, a lot of new people come into her life. The way how the people interact, the conversations and ALL THE EMOTIONS omg It is just wholesome and so human. Funny but also mysterious. A cozy lovely mystery. Perfect for autumn
dnf after 20% this not witty this is petty and dumb. no character I meet in these pages is likeable or funnily unlikeable. The main character is so infuriating noisy and full of herself, I asked myself what is wrong with her or myself. I am now debating if I ever will want to read any book of this author.
This book was absolutely wholesome yet a little hurtful to read at the same time. My absolute favorite part about the book is definitely how all of them found each other. And that way became a little family. They all started out in a pretty dark place in their life, hopeless and stuck. However something as "tragic" as Marshall's death led to something so positive. I found it so interesting to get to know these characters better and experience, how they got their life back together. In which Vera actually played a not so irrelevant part. Making sure everybody's well fed of course, while also kind of forcing them to spend time together over and over again . The murder - mystery aspect made the book even more enjoyable to read and I honestly did not expect the end at all!
Dramedy with a decent mystery, thin line between comical and stereotypical, entertaining but predictable.
“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.” “If only every bad thing in life could be removed just by mopping it away.” “You been standing there for exactly four minutes. I think this unusual behavior, even for a millennial.” “Does that sound ridiculous?” “Yes. But that’s okay, I do a lot of crazy things too.”
This is easily one of my favorite books of this year! I never had ab book made me laugh as much as this one :) Vera is such an interesting character and all of the other cast is lovely. The mystery aspect is written so lovely and the story is much more than just solving it. I recommend this to anyone open to a heartwarming mystery!
Ich war ein wenig skeptisch, nachdem mir das letzte Buch aus der Aunties-Reihe von ihr nicht so gefallen hatte. Aber dieser Roman ist ihr wieder richtig gut gelungen. Es ist eine Story fürs Herz mit absolut liebenswerten Charakteren und vielen, vielen lustigen, aber auch ein paar traurigen Momenten. Über das Ende kann man diskutieren, aber ich fand es ok.