Murder Lo Mein 🍜 (A Noodle Shop Mystery #3) by Vivien Chien

Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery #3) by Vivien Chien | Expected publication: March 26th 2019 by St. Martin’s Press |  304 Pages | Goodreads

✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION

“Lana Lee’s stake in her family’s Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she’s been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland’s Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win—at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off. . .

Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides to take matters into her own hands and dig into the lives of everyone involved in the contest. But when she receives an ill-fated fortune, Lana realizes that in order to save the reputation of her restaurant, she needs to save herself first.”

✅ REVIEW

This is the third installment in the Noodle Shop Mystery series. This time, there’s a noodle contest in Asia Village, all is going well until one of the judges is found dead, and Lana, once again, puts her wits to work to solve the murder.

I enjoyed the story, the victims received a fortune cookie with a quote from The Art of War before being murdered, and it was fun to find a relationship between the quotes and the possible murderer.

Overall, a quick, lighthearted, fun read. I recommend it to readers of cozies and contemporary fiction.

Received ARC from the publisher via Netgalley

✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT

Netgalley, ebook arc