Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || Death by Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery #1) by Vivien Chien

Please join us over at RoseCityReader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice
These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.

3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.

4. Post it.

5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

We were out of town last weekend, so no post. This week I'm back on reading track, I was also in a bit of a small reading slump. But I'm back to reading, finally.

Synopsis:

 Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. . .

   The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband.
   Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead--after a delivery of shrimp dumplings from Ho-Lee. But how could this have happened when everyone on staff knew about Mr. Feng's severe, life-threatening shellfish allergy? Now, with the whole restaurant under suspicion for murder and the local media in a feeding frenzy--to say nothing of the gorgeous police detective who keeps turning up for take-out--it's up to Lana to find out who is behind Feng's killer order. . . before her own number is up.

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Book Beginning:

You know in the movies where someone says "You can't fire me, I quit!"... maybe don't do that in real life. Unless you don't mind working as a server in your parents' Chinese restaurant for the rest of your life.

Friday 56:

I didn't do it often, but I couldn't help but agree with my sister.

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Q: Do you prefer to write short or long reviews?

A: I don't really have a preference. Well, if I don't have a lot to say about a book I won't post the review to my blog, I'll just put it on StoryGraph. So I guess in a way I do have a preference.