Death by dumpling

343 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2018

ISBN:: 978-1-250-12915-4
OCLC Number:: 983521035

(4 reviews)

"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 …

"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."--Adapted from back cover.

3 editions

Leia reviewed Death by dumpling by Vivien Chien (A noodle shop mystery)

Solid Cozy Mystery

4 stars

A cozy mystery set in the suburbs of Cleveland, a mall owner is killed and there are a bunch of suspects. Lana Lee, a waitress at her parent's implicated noodle shop, starts investigating.

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I don't read a lot of cozies, but I did enjoy this one. There is some flair of locale, but not too much that I had to constantly look things up. The mystery wasn't too hardboiled, but wasn't super obvious either. No scooby-doo ending, which is good. The romantic subplot, if it was rated by spiciness, would be a packet of pepper from a fast food joint. Which is fine by me.

I don't think it was anything revolutionary, but I enjoyed it.

Hopefully there's enough meat on it for a two hour discussion for the book club I arranged this around Monday.