Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials: A Singaporean Mystery

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Rosie "Aunty" Lee, the feisty widow and amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home-cooking restaurant, is back in another delectable, witty mystery involving scandal and murder among the city's elite

Few know more about what goes on in Singapore than Aunty Lee. When a scandal over illegal organ donation makes news, she already has a list of suspects. There's no time to snoop, thoughAunty Lee's Delights is catering a brunch for local socialites Henry and Mabel Sung. Rumor has it that the Sungs' fortune is in trouble, and Aunty Lee wonders if the gossip is true. But soon after arriving at the Sungs', her curiosity turns to suspicion. Why is the guesthouse in the garden locked upand what's inside Where is the missing guest of honor Then Mabel Sung and her son, Leonard, are found dead. The authorities blame it on Aunty Lee's special stewed chicken with buah keluak, a local black nut that can be poisonous if cooked improperly. She's certain the deaths are murderand that they're somehow linked to the organ donor scandal. To save her business and her reputation, she's got to prove itand unmask a dangerous killer.

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"n Yu's energetic second Singaporean mystery ... Aunty Lee and her social circle are as vibrantly colorful as the locale." -- Publishers Weekly "This delicious sophomore entry in Yu's sassy series has the quaint accessibility, colorful characters and quotidian detail of a traditional cozy but also a slyly bracing edge." -- Kirkus Reviews "For her second Aunty Lee novel, Yu has cooked up another tasty mystery." -- New York Post

Author Bio

Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore's best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had more than thirty plays produced and is also the author of a number of mysteries. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Iowa's International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore.