Author: Vivien Chien
Series: A Noodle Shop Mystery #1
Genre: Murder/ Cozy Mystery
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Publication Date: March 27, 2018
Edition: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
Source: Library
Purchase: Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | BAM | Bookshop | Powell's | Thriftbooks
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.
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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This is the first murder mystery book I have read since my grade-school days of reading Nancy Drew, and I had so much fun reading it.
The "who done it" aspect did have me guessing of who it could be for most of the book, but there was one point where I figured it out before out heroine seemed to, it was near the end of the book so it was just all the pieces falling into place. I did wonder why she didn't tell the detective some of what she found out sooner. It could have helped save her some stress. But I suppose that was her stubbornness getting in the way.
There are some 'meh' reviews out there for this book, but I think they were wanting a more thrilling mystery, where this one is a cozy mystery. Sure, there was a murder, but there's a heavy focus on family and community that I really enjoyed reading.
There is a "romance", but not really either. More like a lot of awkward flirting that ends with them going on one date at the end of the book.
I plan on reading the rest of the books in this series because I adore the characters.
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