4 out of 5 stars
Halloween Bingo 2025
I always enjoy a visit with Aunty Lee. She is a busy woman, cooking up delicious food for her café clients, her friends, family members, and the local police force. As this book opens, she has sprained an ankle and must rest it to let it heal. Aunty Lee is a woman who needs something to occupy her mind, so if she can't be up and figuring out what to do with an over supply of mangoes, she might as well think about the murder that is affecting her young friends.
This mystery reminded me strongly of Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced. (That is one of my very favourite Christie novels, so this is a compliment in my opinion.) It was very late in the book when part of the truth clicked into place for me and I realized that I had been an idiot for many chapters! Once I knew who had done what, I kicked myself for not twigging to it much earlier.
Ms. Yu writes a satisfying mystery, although her books always make me hungry. I have never been to Singapore, but I would dearly love to try some of the spicy delicacies cooked up in Aunty Lee's kitchen.
I read this book for the Amateur Sleuth square of my Halloween Bingo card.
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