Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

My Rating: 4.9

Spunk Vera Wong lives above her tea shop in San Francisco. Vera has one customer, the same customer, every day. No matter as Vera stays busy checking up on her adult son. One morning, Vera comes downstairs and finds 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 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.

This was such a great book. I HIGHLY recommend that you get it on audio as the fabulous narration added so much to the story. While all of the characters were well done, Vera was such a great character and so full of energy and good intentions. I was laughing and cheering for Vera through the whole book.