Death by Dumpling

A Noodle Shop Mystery

By: Vivien Chien

Narrated by: Cheryl May

Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for....

The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal breakup and a dramatic workplace walkout, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead set on finding her a husband.

Lana’s love life soon becomes yesterday’s news once the restaurant’s property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead - after a delivery of shrimp dumplings from Ho-Lee. But how could this have happened when everyone on staff knew about Mr. Feng’s severe, life-threatening shellfish allergy?

Now, with the whole restaurant under suspicion for murder and the local media in a feeding frenzy - to say nothing of the gorgeous police detective who keeps turning up for takeout - it’s up to Lana to find out who is behind Feng’s killer order...before her own number is up.

“Vivien Chien serves up a delicious mystery with a side order of soy sauce and sass. A tasty start to a new mystery series!” (Kylie Logan, best-selling author of Gone with the Twins)

"Deathby Dumpling is a fun and sassy debut with unique flavor, local flair, and heart.” (Amanda Flower, Agatha Award-winning author of Lethal Licorice)

©2018 St. Martin's Paperbacks (P)2019 Journalstone

Potential

This book definitely has potential the storyline was decent I couldn’t tell who the killer was until the end. I don’t know if it was the narration but the voice over for the male characters and the Asian women was just so off to me. I found it extremely difficult to finish this book.

So good !!

So amazing!! The story fantastic and the narrator was soo good !! Now on to the next !!!

I liked the narrators voice changes.

Cute, cozy mystery that was easy to listen to and follow. More than one possible suspect. I wish there was more conflict/tension between Lana and the Detective. Nice wrap up at the end.

Fun cozy mystery but narration is bad

I really liked the story. It's fun and I appreciate the Asian American female protagonist. My only complaint is that the narrator is really bad, and it teeters on misappropriation. I feel that they should have used a Chinese American that can use the proper voice inflections. Simple things, like how the narrator says mommy and mispronounces some Chinese words make me cringe. I will continue to listen the other books and hope that they find a more appropriate narrator.

Death by Dumpling cozy mystery

Loved it. story line and all keep writing Vivien Chien I enjoyed your book will keep reading