Sunday, October 25, 2020

Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

 Started: 10/14/20

Finished: 10/24/20

Year: 2018

Pages: 326

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Grade: B

Type: Mass Market Paperback

Reason for reading: TBR pile

Blurb (from back cover): "The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal breakup and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that a return to the Cleveland area to help 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."

Opinion: This is the first of the Noodle Shop Mystery series and a decent one at that. I do want to know more about this breakup with the one who will not be named and to see what Lana gets herself mixed up in next. The mystery plot was decent and the motive turns up to be something that isn't expected.

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