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The Reunion Dinner

The Reunion Dinner

MysteryCozy Mystery
Pages
34
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

"The Reunion Dinner" is a short mystery by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto, the second entry in her Busybodies Collection of quirky amateur-sleuth mysteries. Family matriarch Josephine Ying is determined to finally out-host her rival, Big Uncle, at this year's Chinese New Year reunion dinner — until her son's surprise guest, a fiancée the family suspects of being a gold-digger, dies at the table mid-celebration.

Convinced the killer is still in the room, Josephine turns her hosting instincts toward interrogating her own relatives, working through motives and alibis over the remains of the feast. Published by Amazon Original Stories in October 2024, the story is a short, self-contained read that can be finished in a single sitting.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

CozyMysterious

Genres

Mystery Cozy Mystery Amateur Sleuth Short Stories

About the author

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Jesse Q. Sutanto

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author of humorous mysteries and contemporary fiction, best known for the Vera Wong series, including Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, and for Dial A for Aunties, winner of the 2021 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, and grew up between Indonesia and Singapore. She now lives in Jakarta.

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