Dim Sum of All Fears 🍜 (A Noodle Shop Mystery #2) by Vivien Chien

Dim Sum of All Fears 🍜 (A Noodle Shop Mystery #2) by Vivien Chien| Published August 28th 2018 by St. Martin’s Press  |  291 Pages | Goodreads

✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION

“Welcome back to Ho-Lee Noodle House, where you can get fantastic take-out. . .unless you get taken out first.

Lana Lee is a dutiful daughter, waiting tables at her family’s Chinese restaurant even though she’d rather be doing just about anything else. Then, just when she has a chance for a “real” job, her parents take off to Taiwan, leaving Lana in charge. Surprising everyone―including herself―she turns out to be quite capable of running the place. Unfortunately, the newlyweds who just opened the souvenir store next door to Ho-Lee have turned up dead. . .and soon Lana finds herself in the midst of an Asia Village mystery.

Between running the Ho-Lee and trying to figure out whether the rock-solid Detective Adam Trudeau is actually her boyfriend, Lana knows she shouldn’t pry into the case. But the more she learns about the dead husband, his ex-wives, and all the murky details of the couple’s past, the more Lana thinks that this so-called murder/suicide is a straight-up order of murder. . .”

✅ REVIEW

Another great cozy from the author of Death by Dumpling. This is the second book in the Noodle Shop Mystery series and one that is becoming a favorite of mine.

In this installment, Lana continues working on her family’s restaurant Ho-Lee Noodle House and has become friends with Isabelle, the owner of the new business next door. They get together every week after work and go to the bookstore to pick up new books.

Unexpectedly, Isabelle and her husband turn up dead and Lana starts investigating who could have committed the murder.

The novel has a little bit of everything, mystery, humor, and I throughly enjoyed it. The covers are lovely and I look forward to the next installment.

I recommend it to readers of mysteries and contemporary fiction.

✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT

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