A surprisingly entertaining and engaging book.

Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films will develop the book for television.

It’s Vera Wong herself that makes this book. The plot and other characters simply support her.

Funny.

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.  …

… one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop.

In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. 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.

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 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. …

REVIEW: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto

I laughed out loud at Vera. This is one of the better fictional personas I’ve read in some time.

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author.  I’m assuming she knows bossy characters like Vera. 😀