Charming, chaotic, and sometimes ridiculous.

Jesse Q. Sutanto is the Chinese-Indonesian author of Four Aunties and a Wedding (2022).

She currently lives in Jakarta with her husband, who is English, and their two daughters.

In 2021, Sutanto published her hit novel, Dial A for Aunties. I enjoyed it.

 Wedding is the 2nd book in the series. 

Quit somewhere in the middle where nothing actually seems to be happening. This book didn’t work for me.

It’s supposed to be a cozy murder mystery — but I’d call it more of a light comedy. 

Our heroine, Meddy Chan, is getting married. 

… she can’t wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. 

As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. …

… family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family—actual mafia, and they’re using Meddy’s wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. 

Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene—over their dead bodies—and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.

It makes no sense.

Oddly, the wedding is in Oxford, England.