Egg Drop Dead A Noodle Shop Mystery

Lana Lee manages the Ho-Lee Noodle House in the Asia Village shopping plaza, and she has just taken on her first catering job. It is meant to be a small, elegant dinner party by a swimming pool, hosted by Donna Feng, who owns the plaza. The evening ends with a domestic worker dead.

Before the police arrive, Donna hands Lana an odd piece of evidence: a thumb drive shaped like a terra-cotta soldier. Donna may or may not be responsible for the death, and Lana is the one who has to find out.

She does so while keeping up with the restaurant, a mother who is quick to disapprove, and her boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau, whose commitment to her runs hot and cold. Her inquiry runs both online and in person. It leads into Donna's earlier life in China, raises the question of whether the victim had a hidden agenda, and leaves open whether the killer will act again.

This is the fifth book in the Noodle Shop mystery series. It is a cozy mystery with a food-world setting and a light, punning tone, built around an amateur sleuth and a small circle of people she knows.