Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials

Name: Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ovidia Yu
ISBN: 9781494546915

Author: Ovidia Yu

Series: Singaporean Mystery #2

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/02/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy

Synopsis

Few know more about what goes on in Singapore than Aunty Lee. When a scandal over illegal organ donation involving prominent citizens makes news, she already has a list of suspects. There's no time to snoop, though—Aunty Lee's Delights is catering a brunch for local socialites Henry and Mabel Sung at their opulent house.

Rumor has it that the Sung's fortune is in trouble, and Aunty Lee wonders if the gossip is true. But soon after arriving at the Sung's house, her curiosity turns to suspicion. Why is a storage house she discovers locked? What is the couple arguing about behind closed doors? Where is the guest of honor who never showed up?

Then, Mabel Sung and her son Leonard are found dead. The authorities blame it on Aunty Lee's special stewed chicken with buah keluak, a local black nut that can be poisonous if cooked improperly. Aunty Lee has never carelessly prepared a dish. She's certain the deaths are murder—and that they're somehow linked to the organ donor scandal.

To save her business and her reputation, she's got to prove it—and unmask a dangerous killer whose next victim may just be Aunty Lee.

About Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore's best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had more than thirty plays produced and is also the author of a number of mysteries. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Iowa's International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathalie on September 18, 2021

What attracted me to this book was the category "A Singaporean Mystery". I've read a couple of books set in Asia of which I really know very little and it intrigues me. This book dealt with the illegal selling of body parts which I have heard is more common in Asia. The following sentences were rath......more

Goodreads review by Doreen on December 29, 2016

So many fiction series start out well then hit a sort of sophomore slump: Ovidia Yu's Aunty Lee mystery series manages not only to avoid this pitfall but to improve (vastly, in my opinion) on her debut. While the food writing and observations regarding Singaporean mores and personalities are as exce......more

Goodreads review by Glen on November 19, 2017

Aunty Lee, restaurant owner/sleuth, finds another case. While catering for an obnoxious lady lawyer and her more obnoxious son, the jerks are killed, and one of Aunty Lee's dishes is framed for the deed. Aunty Lee has to get her establishment out from under the cloud of suspicion and find the real ki......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 06, 2014

Things turn deadly when Aunty Lee is hired to cater a party for a local law firm! Rosie Lee is known for her tasty Peranakan specialties, which leads to a special request from the Sung Law Firm. Mabel Sung hires Aunty Lee to cook for a party honoring the new promotion of her daughter, Sharon. For th......more