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A review by oashackelford
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
5.0
Vera Wong is the ultimate Chinese mother. She wakes up every day at 4:30 a.m. and goes for a lengthy walk. She texts her son frequently to remind him of good habits he should be keeping. She runs her tea shop, which now has only one regular customer, in a neat and efficient manner, and her life runs like clockwork. That is, until the day she finds a body in her tea shop.
I love Vera. I think that she is the ultimate example of an older person with a big heart who just wants people in her life to show love to. When she meets her four suspects for the murder, she likes them too much to want to see them in jail and starts to push her way into their lives and turn them around for the better. the relationships that she forms in the book are so cute and powerful that until the last twenty pages I was pretty sure they were never going to reveal who killed the man in her teashop.
I think this might be the weirdest whodunnit that I have ever read, but it also immediately became one of my favorites. I think that Jesse Q. Sutanto built these relationships in a genuine way, so it doesn't feel forced, and I think that every scene feels earned. I am excited to check out her other books now.
I love Vera. I think that she is the ultimate example of an older person with a big heart who just wants people in her life to show love to. When she meets her four suspects for the murder, she likes them too much to want to see them in jail and starts to push her way into their lives and turn them around for the better. the relationships that she forms in the book are so cute and powerful that until the last twenty pages I was pretty sure they were never going to reveal who killed the man in her teashop.
I think this might be the weirdest whodunnit that I have ever read, but it also immediately became one of my favorites. I think that Jesse Q. Sutanto built these relationships in a genuine way, so it doesn't feel forced, and I think that every scene feels earned. I am excited to check out her other books now.