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Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery (original 2013; udgave 2013)

af Ovidia Yu (Forfatter)

Serier: Aunty Lee Singaporean Mysteries (1)

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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.… (mere)

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Medlem:	gismcxc
Titel:	Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery
Forfattere:	Ovidia Yu (Forfatter)
Info:	William Morrow Paperbacks (2013), 208 pages
Samlinger:	Læst, men ikke ejet
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Un cozy mystery ambientato a Singapore e che al di la dell'ambientazione poco consueta non spicca sotto nessun aspetto.
La prima parte benché non originale si sviluppa in maniera piacevole; facciamo conoscenza con la protagonista un po' stereotipata ma simpatica (una miss Marple più ricca e più brava in cucina), veniamo introdotti nel suo mondo e gradualmente, in maniera naturale e non forzata, ci vengono presentati anche i futuri sospettati: tutto come nel più tradizionale dei gialli insomma. Poi qualcosa in questo meccanismo ben collaudato si inceppa e con l'inizio vero e proprio delle indagini il libro perde mordente: invece di concentrarsi sul mistero l'autrice perde tempo a darci lezioncine sui diritti lgbt+. Lodevole l'intento, ma poco appropriato per un romanzetto giallo senza pretese che infatti finisce per banalizzare la questione ed affogarla in un mare di buonismo da quattro soldi. Tra un coming out e una riconciliazione familiare la soluzione arriva quasi per sbaglio, non ci viene nemmeno spiegato come Aunty Lee abbia risolto il caso.
Non è tutto da buttare, infatti la scrittura è scorrevole l'ambientazione convincente: peccato per la trama gialla non all'altezza (e in un mystery non mi pare problema da poco). (

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Lilirose_ | Jul 17, 2023 |

From the book jacket: 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.

My reactions:
I had hopes for this first in a new cozy mystery series. I’ve visited Singapore and love the cuisine. And I love cozy mysteries with fun amateur sleuths. But this one just fell flat for me.

I though Yu was trying too hard to craft a complicated mystery and NOT doing enough to endear Aunty Lee and her trusty sidekick/maid, Nina, to the reader. Senior Staff Sergeant Salim seems way too inexperienced and easily cowed by Aunty, but he is a good foil for her efforts to solve the crime on her own.

The other characters were just ridiculous … though I did love how Aunty thought of her stepdaughter-in-law; “Silly-na” perfectly describes Selina!

And there was something off-putting for me about the lesbian characters and theme. Perhaps I don’t have sufficient understanding of the Singaporean culture to appreciate what Yu was doing by introducing these characters and their storyline. (

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BookConcierge | Jul 7, 2023 |

Overall, it was an interesting read which reminded me a lot of Miss Marple. I wonder if Ovidia Yu had been inspired by Agatha Christie in this instance.

Here's my full review:
http://www.sholee.net/2019/01/mpov-aunty-lees-delights-singaporean.html (

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Sholee | Sep 9, 2021 |

cozy murder mystery set in Singapore. I only read to page 24, but aside from a hastily explained italicized term every once in a while, I wasn't getting that much local flavor, not even from the (too brief) descriptions of the food. This is also one of those "cozy" mysteries, which seems to mean that characters putter about for a while and I get bored. Not to say that there needs to be more butchering of bodies a la the Scandinavian fictional psychopaths, but the style of writing doesn't pique my interest. (

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reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |

This was my second venture into the Aunty Lee series, an enjoyable, not overly complex cosy. It gives good background for the later novel that I had already read. Apart from the murder mystery there is interesting commentary on life in Singapore. In style it reminded me just a little of Alexander McCall Smith's No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

My book group have suggested I also try the Crown Colony series.

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Contrary to what Selina believed, there was quite enough work for Nina under Aunty Lee's supervision. That morning she had already watered and trimmed the garden, prepared and washed up breakfast, and made the pot of lemongrass-and-ginger tea (from freshly harvested lemongrass) and was currently employed in tailing mung-bean sprouts or tow gay. Because Aunty Lee insisted on sprouting her own green beans, this was slightly more complicated. Rather than the uniformly slim straight sprouts you could find in the market or supermarket, her sprouts were twisted and contorted. But they were also lusciously plump and juicy. "Like women," Aunty Lee said. "The skinny ones all no taste." (p. 77)

As far as Aunty Lee was concerned, people ought to go through the ideas they carried around in their heads as regularly as they turned out their store cupboards. No matter how wisely you shopped, there would be things in the depths that were past their expiration dates or gone damp and moldy -- or that had been picked up on impulse and were no longer relevant. Aunty Lee believed everything inside a head or cupboard could affect everything else in it by going bad or just taking up more space than it was worth.

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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.

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