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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
A Vera Wong Novel · Book 1 · 2023
Audiobook available · 10 hr 41 min
Vera Wong finds a dead man in her struggling San Francisco tea shop and quietly pockets his flash drive. Certain she can do better than the police, she watches the customers who might have a reason to retrieve it. Getting attached to her suspects makes her task more complicated.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive”Read the full description at Berkley / Penguin Random House
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What makes it funny?
Vera texts her son at 4:31 a.m. to tell him he is sleeping too late. Her warning that late dinners killed Uncle Lin earns an inconvenient reply: he died because a bus hit him.
The comedy at work
Vera’s confidence survives facts that ought to trouble it. Her son and the third-person narrator supply corrections, while she continues to treat her own opinions as useful instructions for everyone else.
Try this if…
The friendships matter as much as the suspects’ secrets. Readers drawn to gentle character humor, elaborate meals and a lonely person finding company have much to enjoy here.
Good to know
The third-person narration moves among the central characters, giving the suspects lives beyond Vera’s view of them.
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More in A Vera Wong Novel
The series continues with one more book on our shelf.
Book 2Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)
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A few distinguishing details
- A tea-shop owner befriends the people she suspects
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