Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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 ladyΓÇöahlady of a certain ageΓÇöwho lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San FranciscoΓÇÖs Chinatown. Despite living aloneVera is not needyoh 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 morningVera trudges downstairs to find a curious thingΓÇöa dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched handa flash drive. Vera doesnΓÇÖt know what comes over herbut after calling the cops like any good citizen wouldshe 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 couldbecause 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 henwill she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?