num_pages: 264
description: This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie Aunty Lee feisty widow amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurantAfter losing her husband Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's tai tai an idle rich lady devoted to mah-jongg and luxury shopping. Instead she threw herself into building a culinary empire from her restaurant Aunty Lee's Delights where spicy Singaporean home cooking is graciously served to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore's beautiful tourist havens and when one of her wealthy guests fails to show at a dinner party Aunty Lee knows that the two are likely connected.The murder and disappearance throws together Aunty Lee's henpecked stepson Mark his social-climbing wife Selina a gay couple whose love is still illegal in Singapore and an elderly Australian tourist couple whose visit-billed at first as a pleasure cruise-may mask a deeper purpose. Investigating the murder is rookie Police Commissioner Raja who quickly discovers that the savvy and well-connected Aunty Lee can track down clues even better than local law enforcement.Wise witty and unusually charming Aunty Lee's Delights is a spicy mystery about love friendship and home cooking in Singapore where money flows freely and people of many religions and ethnicities co-exist peacefully but where tensions lurk just below the surface sometimes with deadly results.
language: English
title: Aunty Lee's Delights
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks