Crafts and Life

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home-cooking restaurant

After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a culinary empire from her restaurant, Aunty Lee's Delights, where spicy Singaporean meals are graciously served to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore's tourist havens and one of her guests fails to show at a dinner party, Aunty Lee knows that the two events are likely connected.

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 may mask a deeper purpose. Investigating the murder are Police Commissioner Raja and Senior Staff Sergeant Salim, who quickly discover that Aunty Lee's sharp nose for intrigue can sniff out clues that elude law enforcers.

Wise, witty, and charming, Aunty Lee's Delights is a spicy mystery about love, friendship, and food in Singapore, where money flows freely and people of many religions and ethnicities coexist peacefully, but where tensions lurk just below the surface, sometimes with deadly consequences.

Aunty Lee decided rather than swanning around being a rich widow she would prefer to DO something, with that in mind she set up her cafe/restaurant.  It normally only served food during the day but every so often she and her maid/assistant (Nina) would cook food for an evening event (normally for her stepson, Mark – who is trying to make a go of being a wine merchant, having failed at his previous attempts at starting companies!)

At this particular gathering it appears that various people are wanting to see a lady named Laura Kwee (a friend of Selina Lee – Mark's wife) but she hasn't appeared – then the body of a female is found and "Rosie" Lee along with Nina (and the local police in the form of SSS Salim) are trying to discover what happened and why!