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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

Contemporary LiteratureCrime
Pages
336
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Vera Wong is a lonely widow who spends her days drinking tea and critiquing her son's life until she finds a dead body in her tea shop. Convinced the police are doing a poor job, she swipes a piece of evidence and starts her own investigation into the customers who might be killers. Along the way, this meddling grandmother finds herself building unexpected connections with her prime suspects.

Prose complexity
4/10

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CozyFunnyHeartwarmingLighthearted
Found FamilyMultiple POVsMentor Figure

Genres

Contemporary Literature Crime Mystery

About the author

J
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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