Arsenic and Adobo

A RUSA Award-winning novel! The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishesΓÇöone that might just be killer…. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup,her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurantand she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lilaher life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case. With the cops treating her like she’s the one and only suspectand the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefrontLila’s left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie networkher barista best budand her trusted DachshundLonganisaLila takes on this tastytwisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping blockΓǪ