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Ovidia Yu

Review: Meddling and Murder by Ovidia Yu

By Doreen Sheridan

September 22, 2017

Meddling and Murder by Ovidia Yu is the fourth book in the Aunty Lee Mysteries series. We’re back with another excellent installment of the Aunty Lee Mysteries series, with one thing notably missing but an addition that I’m going to flatter myself into thinking is about me (cue the Carly Simon right here). In this…

Cooking the Books: Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu

By Doreen Sheridan

July 20, 2016

The 3rd novel in Ovidia Yu’s Singaporean mystery series finds Aunty Lee laid up with a sprained ankle and, therefore, grumpy at the curtailment of her ability to lovingly interfere in the lives of others. To make matters worse, her overbearing stepdaughter-in-law has decided to “help” Aunty Lee run her cafe while she’s healing, which…

Cooking the Books: Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu

By Doreen Sheridan

June 8, 2016

The second book in Ovidia Yu’s Singaporean Mystery series starring Rosie Lee—a cafe-owning widow affectionately called Aunty by all who know her—sees our intrepid, if unlikely, heroine caught up in the death of two people at an event she was catering. Aunty Lee had prepared a delicacy that, much like the infamous fugu fish, could…

Cooking the Books: Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu

By Doreen Sheridan

June 1, 2016

Mystery novels are my intellectual comfort food, so when a series comes along that combines murder with my idea of actual, physical comfort food, it’s hard to resist! Aunty Lee’s Delights is the story of Singaporean Rosie Lee, a middle-aged widow who runs a cafe more to keep herself busy than to actually turn a…

Now Win This!: The Second Paper Capers Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

September 30, 2014

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Now Win This!: Trick-or-Treat Food Mystery Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

October 29, 2013

Halloween is almost here and instead of a trick, we thought we'd give you a treat of food mysteries! While cannolis and clam chowder aren't the typical treats for Halloween, we imagine these books will be just what you're looking for! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments…

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