Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge

Singaporean Mystery Series #3

By: Ovidia Yu

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee begrudgingly agrees to take a rest from running her famous cafe, Aunty Lee's Delights, and turns over operations to her friend and new business partner Cherril.

The cafe serves as a meeting place for an animal rescue society that Cherril once supported. They were forced to dissolve three years earlier after a British expat killed the puppy she'd adopted, sparking a firestorm of scandal. The expat, Allison Fitzgerald, left Singapore in disgrace, but has returned with an ax to grind (and a lawsuit). At the cafe one afternoon, Cherril receives word that Allison has been found dead in her hotel - and foul play is suspected. When a veterinarian, who was also involved in the scandal, is found dead, suspicion soon falls on the animal activists. What started with an internet witch hunt has ended in murder - and in a tightly knit, law-and-order society like Singapore, everyone is on edge.

Before anyone else gets hurt - and to save her business - Aunty Lee must get to the bottom of what really happened three years earlier, and figure out who is to be trusted in this tangled web of scandal and lies.

©2016 Ovidia Yu (P)2020 Tantor

Loved this book!

Ovidia Yu is one of my favorite authors and this one did not disappoint. If you like cozy mysteries you are sure to love this one. The narrator is fantastic as well - I admired how she moved effortlessly between characters of different nationalities.

I love Aunty Lee

There are just a few books that I wish would go on and on, this is one of them. The reader and the storyteller have created complete magic. I have never seen Singapore but this has made me feel I at least have a friend there in Aunty Lee.