Aunty Lee Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery, Book 1, (Paperback)

from cathyskye

Aunty Lee and Nina are at the very heart of this story, and their characters came to life. Unfortunately everyone else around these two women tend to be stock characters: the bumbling, henpecked husband, the ill-tempered social climbing wife, policemen who have to learn how to do their jobs from ...

from zeborah

This makes me think that maybe the reason I don't read more mysteries is that a very common way of creating satisfying suspects with satisfying motives is to make the entire cast incredibly unpleasant. That is something of an exaggeration in this case at least. But it was still sufficiently true ...

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I have been reading more cozy mysteries lately and am particularly intrigued by those set in less familiar environs or peopled with less common characters. Ovidia Yu's Aunty Lee's Delights, set in Singapore, populated with characters from many different nationalities, and with an older, female, a...

from MrsLee

Aunty Lee owns a restaurant in Singapore, cooking the best of home-cooked food. She is also what we might call a busy-body with insatiable curiosity, so when dead bodies start turning up, of course she gets involved. The setting and characters were interesting enough in this book to make it an en...

from 4leschats

The discovery of a young woman's body found on the beach sets off an official investigation, but also triggers the curiosity of widower and cafe owner, Aunty Lee. When she learns that the victim was someone she knew and had fed, Aunty Lee becomes increasingly involved in the mystery which reveals...