Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto is a pleasant cozy thriller that brims with humor and coronary heart whereas introducing an unforgettable lead character.
The titular Vera leads a quiet life. She runs a tea store in San Francisco’s Chinatown that hardly ever sees clients and spends her days cyberstalking her son, who usually ignores her calls. Vera’s routine is disrupted when she discovers a corpse in her retailer. She springs into motion—outlining the physique with a Sharpie, similar to she’s seen on TV; tidying up her store and making tea to impress the police; and most notably, swiping a flash drive from the useless man, Marshall Chen. She’s undecided the police will take his loss of life (which is clearly a homicide, to her “CSI”-trained eyes) critically. So Vera makes use of the knowledge on the flash drive to establish 4 suspects: Oliver, Marshall’s brother; Julia, Marshall’s widow; and Sana and Riki, who declare to be journalists investigating the suspicious loss of life. All 4 have one thing to cover, however as Vera investigates, the group comes collectively in sudden and stunning methods. Is a killer really amongst this newly discovered household of hers?
Vera is a tour-de-force creation. She’s feisty and meddlesome, with a giant creativeness and larger coronary heart. She’s riotously humorous, usually with out attempting to be. She spends a terrific deal of time shelling out powerful love and sage recommendation, and is nearly all the time appropriate, a lot to the annoyance of her new mates. Sutanto additionally delivers well-drawn, memorable secondary characters, significantly Julia and her daughter, Emma. As Vera worms her approach into her suspects’ lives and hearts, so, too, will the characters of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers endear themselves to readers.
The thriller itself is intriguing, with well-placed clues and foreshadowing. Marshall left behind a path of lies and enemies, however Vera proves herself as much as the duty of fixing his homicide. And alongside the way in which, she even helps many of his family and friends heal and develop into higher variations of themselves. Sutanto hits all the best notes on this cozy thriller, completely mixing meddling, homicide and located household.
Discussion about this post