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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

You'll enjoy these titles because: you like cozy mysteries, senior sleuths, and amateur detectives.

Wood Buffalo Regional Library

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  • You like foodie mysteries: Like Vera Wong, Death by Dumpling features an Asian American amateur detective in this cozy mystery. The first in a series, Lana Lee is working at her family's Ho-Lee Noodle House when the restaurant's property…
    PaperbackNew York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2018. — CHI
  • You like foodie mysteries: The first in Joanne Fluke's beloved Hannah Swensen mystery series. Hannah run's the Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. That is until her delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy is found murdered behind her…
    BookNew York : Kensington Books, [2019] — FLUKE
  • You like foodie mysteries: Rosie "Aunty" Lee's Singaporean home cooking restaurant is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike, until one of her wealth guests fails to show to a dinner party and a body is found at one of…
    eBookHarperCollins, 2013
  • You like foodie mysteries: Enter the world of competitive baking; "Bake Week" welcomes six amateur bakers to Betsy Martin's Vermont Estate every summer. This year, things go away. At first it's merely sabotage, but when a body is…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2023. — MAXWELL
  • You like senior sleuths: Rose and her sister-in-law, Peg, are opposites in every way. But they are trying to put their differences aside when they join their local bridge club. In a case of bad-time, the club's most accomplished player is…
    eBookKensington Books, 2022
  • Marple

    Twelve New Stories

    You like senior sleuths: Perhaps the greatest amateur detective of all-time, Miss Marple is reimagined in this collection of 12 short stories. Featuring Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and more!
    BookNew York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. — MARPLE
  • You like senior sleuths: Join Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron, a group of eighty-year-olds, for the Thursday Murder Club, a weekly gathering to investigate unsolved murders. Their peaceful community is rocked when a brutal killing take…
    BookNew York : Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, [2020] — OSMAN
  • You like senior sleuths: When Madeline Forbisher, a member of the Penrith Bingo Club, is found dead outside her country home, no one thinks it's foul play except her fellow club member, Amita. Dismissed as eccentric and out of touch, Amita…
    eBookHarperCollins Publishers, 2022
  • You like books set in San Francisco Chinatown: Looking for another cozy story set in Chinatown - try Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune. Natalie returns home after her mother's death reopen her grandmother's restaurant. While not a…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2019. — LIM
  • Looking for more by the author? Jesse Q. Sutanto's Aunties series features a cast of meddling Asian aunties, an accidental murder on a blind date, and a possible curse on three generations of a Chinese-Indonesian family. If you like this,…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2021] — SUTANTO