Vera Wong's Unsolicited Guide for Murderers| Jesse Q Sutanto | Thriller | Book Review

 

Name of Book : Vera Wong's Unsolicited Guide for Murderers

Author : Jesse Q. Sutanto

Publisher : HQ

Publication Date : March 16, 2023

No. of Pages : 352

Format : Kindle

Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?

Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).

But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.

Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.

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Jesse Q. Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a masters from Oxford University. When she is not writing, she is gaming with her husband or making a mess in the kitchen with her two daughters.

My Opinion

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Guide for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto is a slow paced thriller with an amateur woman sleuth, Vera Wong. The book is horribly slow with bad characters. At some places the plot doesn't even makes sense. The first few pages were good but Vera Wong's character made it unbearable. The suspects even look like one, and our woman sleuth was too much nosy. The plot had too many loopholes to digest the facts. I have read this book as a part of #52booksin52weeks challenge. It was really a challenge reaching the end. I had high hopes for the book but everything turned out to be so disappointing. The book deserves 2 stars.

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