| International Standard Book Number |
9780062227157 (trade pbk.)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0062227157 (trade pbk.)
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| Personal Name |
Yu, Ovidia, 1961- author.
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| Title Statement |
Aunty Lee's delights : a Singaporean mystery bk. 1 / Ovidia Yu.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
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| Physical Description |
264, 13 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Singaporean mystery ; bk. 01
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| General Note |
Includes recipe.
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| General Note |
"Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant. After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore’s “tai tai,” an idle rich lady devoted to an aimless life of mah-jongg and luxury shopping. Instead she threw herself into building a culinary empire from her restaurant, Aunty Lee’s Delights, where spicy Singaporean home cooking is graciously served by Rosie Lee herself to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore’s beautiful tourist havens, and when one of her wealthy guests fails to show at a dinner party, Aunty Lee knows that the two are likely connected. The murder and disappearance throws together Aunty Lee’s henpecked stepson Mark, his social-climbing wife Selina, a gay couple whose love is still illegal in Singapore, and an elderly Australian tourist couple whose visit—billed at first as a pleasure cruise—may mask a deeper purpose. Investigating the murder is rookie Police Commissioner Raja, who quickly discovers that the savvy and well-connected Aunty Lee can track down clues even better than local law enforcement. Wise, witty and unusually charming, Aunty Lee’s Delights is a spicy mystery about love, friendship and home cooking in Singapore, where money flows freely and people of many religions and ethnicities co-exist peacefully, but where tensions lurk just below the surface, sometimes with deadly results.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Widows Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Restaurateurs Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women amateur detectives Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Singaporean fiction (English)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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