{"product_id":"aunty-lees-delights-a-singaporean-mystery-9780062227157","title":"Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie \"Aunty\" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's \"tai tai,\" an idle rich lady devoted to an aimless life of 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 by Rosie Lee herself 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWise, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYu, Ovidia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eOvidia Yu is one of Singapore's best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had more than thirty plays produced and is also the author of a number of mysteries. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Iowa's International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608959684882,"sku":"9780062227157","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80652efc-f458-419f-8541-cf9048ff0113.jpg?v=1732327361","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/aunty-lees-delights-a-singaporean-mystery-9780062227157","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}