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A USA Today bestseller
Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery

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?

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B4513BRW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (March 14, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 14, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2573 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0593546172
Reviewer: Bear24
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Vera Songs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Review: Great book. Fun characters and great storyline. The plot was easy to follow and funny. You will fall in love with Vera and her antics. Great read! Highly recommend.

Reviewer: Happy Reader
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Humorous Mystery Due to Vera's Acerbic Wit!
Review: Vera Wong Zhuzhu, emigrated to San Francisco with her husband, who died not long ago. So now, at age 60, she runs Vera Wang’s World-Famous Teahouse by herself. If you can call it “running.” Most days, she only has one customer.She still lives in the apartment above the shop. One morning, she goes downstairs to take her usual walk, only to find a dead body in her tea shop.It becomes apparent to Vera that the police are not taking the murder seriously. Certainly not as aggressively as an accomplished busy-body like Vera expects. So Vera starts investigating herself. It turns out the murder might be the best thing for Vera ever, as she becomes friends with most of the suspects.This mystery has a lot of humor. Vera has an acerbic wit and enormous hutzpah. Ex: “Oh, you young people take everything so personal nowadays. So what if I think you might be a killer? That doesn’t mean I think you are a bad person.”This was a quick enjoyable read. It’s character driven with a decent plot. 3.6 stars rounded up to 4 stars.Happy Reader

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: LOVE
Review: I loved this book so much! It’s hilarious and heartwarming…has a nice little mystery too. I’m so sad it’s over. I truly loved all the characters…except for Marshall of course. I can’t wait for the next book in the series! I’ve already preordered. Vera is officially my favorite female character of any book I’ve read

Reviewer: Janet M.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gotta love Vera!
Review: Testy and opinionated, Vera Wong lives a structured and lonely life in Chinatown, S.F., until a dead body winds up in her tea shop. She is intent on solving the murder, even when the police insist it isn't a murder. This doesn't stop her. Based on her knowledge of TV crime shows, she accuses four people who happenstance show up at the crime scene, her world famous teahouse.Vera is a crack up of a character and hard not to like. Even as outrageous as she can be, she brings the best out of people in a backhanded way. Especially little Emma. I loved their relationship. As each character is introduced, the reader learns a reason why they might be the murderer. While in your heart, you know none of them have it in them. Or do they? Unexpectedly, the group of four plus Vera become friends, almost family, enjoying the amazing cooking of Vera Wong. Of course, everything goes haywire and new friendships are broken. It takes an emergency to bring everyone back together. When the real killer is revealed, the gang is shocked.Recommended fun, older protagonist, who-done-it.

Reviewer: Mcbruce56
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Readable, charming and questionable
Review: One of my pet peeves in mystery is when you read through a book where the goal is to identify the killer--and the solution comes along and it's a character who was barely in the book. So that's my first criticism of this book, written (so the author says) after she came up with the idea and her agent encouraged her to write the book.My second criticism is that the main character, Vera Wong of the title, is a charming, quirky, somewhat likeable old Chinese woman (the author says she's based on her mother.) What disturbs me is that the main character is a bit too what you would expect an older Chinese woman to be like. I kept asking myself if I, a male white writer, had written this book word-for-word, would it have been published? Or would agents and publishers chastised me for indulging in racial stereotypes.Still, the book is easily read and I'm 100% sure Vera Wong will appear again.

Reviewer: MP
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: I loved this book throughout the whole read. It’ll keep you guessing until the very end. I definitely didn’t want to put it down. Highly recommend.

Reviewer: Patsi M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love this book!
Review: I just finished reading this wonderful book & I'm totally in love with all the characters. It's a fun & easy read that kept me smiling & giggling almost the entire time. Do yourself a favor & get to know Vera; you won't regret it!

Reviewer: Frank and Madeline Martino
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Cozy Mystery!
Review: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is a story of found family. This cozy mystery has captivating characters and keeps you guessing!

Reviewer: Beverley S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book was a joy to read. Lots of chuckles smiles and warm heart feelings included within the serious business of murder . Set in China Town San Francisco Vera Wong is the kind of woman who is set in her ways but with a knack for being an amateur detective. You'll keep guessing right till the end of the book of who murdered the dead man in the tea house.

Reviewer: mto 81
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Der English ist leicht zu verstehen und die Geschichte hat alles was ich mich wünschen konnte: eine „Detektiv“ Geschichte (Mord), eine Tee Tante und vor allem, eine warmherzige Denkweise.Ich freue mich sehr auf das zweite Buch (es wäre schön, wenn es zu eine Buch Serie wird!)

Reviewer: Steph Warren
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Absolutely brilliant! This cosy mystery blended with some strong found-family flavours, lots of sly humour and a splash of pathos had me rushing out to buy a paper ‘keep’ copy and recommending it wholeheartedly to all my family and friends. I even rang my mum up specially, just to rave about it… I’m sure Vera would approve!The story follows tea-shop owner Vera as she finds a dead body in the middle of her floor, and quickly sets about organising police, suspects and random customers as she attempts to find the inconsiderate killer and accidentally improves lives – including her own – along the way.As well as being both funny and touching, this book has a solid mystery plot. It all makes sense and the clues are all there but it kept me guessing throughout, and although I managed to get an inkling of who the murderer was before the reveal, I had absolutely no idea why or how it was done until Vera patiently explained it to me.But the main joy here is the characters. Vera, obviously, but also Julia and Emma, Riki, Sana, Oliver and even Officer Gray – they might not be on the same page as far as the murder goes (everyone has their secrets!) but they definitely conspired to win my heart and I was firmly rooting for them all to survive Vera’s whirlwind approach to investigation.This is the perfect book for fans of found family, humour and mystery – full of warmth, heart, good food and well-meaning meddling. I’m going to have to pick up a copy of Jesse Sutanto’s Auntie books now, as I may very well have found another new favourite author!

Reviewer: Grey Meredith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I loved this book. It’s a mystery book but the mystery isn’t really the center and core of the story at the end. There’s more to that. I loved the characters and it felt like a warm hug. It’s a fast paced book, well written and never boring.

Reviewer: Debjani Paul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I was looking for some light reading when a friend recommended this book. Absolutely enjoyed it.