Aunty Lee's Delights

<p><strong>This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie Aunty Lee feisty widow amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant.</strong><br/></p> <p>After 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>