Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. Why? Because Vera is sure she would 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 doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of…swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing - a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady - ah, lady of a certain age - who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.
As a reader, you’ll laugh and grieve with William and the Padavanos as they go through life - soaring as much as they stumble.Ī lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q.
Reasons to read it: This is a family drama with echoes of classics and characters who are distinctly written. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?Īn exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos.īut then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another.
With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book Cecelia is a free-spirited artist and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him - so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
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