by Vivien Chien
Part of Noodle Shop Mystery
First published 2020
Lana Lee manages the Ho-Lee Noodle House in Cleveland's Asia Village. She looks forward to spending the weekend with her boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau. Then she watches a car crash in the restaurant parking lot. June Yi from Yi's Tea and Bakery rear-ends a Cadillac owned by Mildred "Millie" Mao, a Mah Jong enthusiast. The two women curse and threaten each other. Lana knows this means trouble for the tight-knit community. Soon after, Millie turns up dead at the local beauty salon. She appears to have been electrocuted during a foot bath treatment. All suspicion falls on June Yi. Lana must investigate the murder before another person dies in Asia Village. She balances solving the case with running her demanding family business.
Genres: american-fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, cozy-mystery
Vibes: community-focused, cozy, lighthearted-mystery, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, community-mystery, found-family
Setting: Ho-Lee Noodle House, Asia Village, Cleveland, Yi's Tea and Bakery
304 pages · Mass Market Paperback · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Content warnings: murder