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?
