Fatal Fried Rice: A Noodle Shop Mystery

Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio in Vivien Chien's Fatal Fried Rice

Lana Lee runs her family’s Chinese restaurant in Cleveland’s Asia Village like nobody’s business. When it comes to actual cooking, however, she’s known to be about a step up from boiling rice. So Lana decides to go to culinary school on the sly—and prove that she has what it takes in the kitchen after all. But when course instructor Margo Chan turns up dead after class, Lana suddenly finds herself on the case, frying pan in hand.

Since she was the one who discovered the body, Lana must do double duty in finding the killer and clearing her name. Now, with or without the help of her boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana launches her own investigation into Margo’s life and mysterious death. Doing so leads her on a wild goose chase to and from the culinary school—and all the way back to the Ho-Lee noodle shop, where the guilty party may be closer than Lana thinks.

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Published Mar 9, 2021

320 pages

Average rating: 7

2 RATINGS

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Flo Lau
Mar 23, 2024
6/10 stars
I ended up giving this 3.25 stars on Storygraph. I normally hate the (very common) storyline in mystery books/shows where the main character is accused/suspected of the crime, but since this is a ~cozy mystery, nothing too bad happened. I thought the reason that the crime was committed (like the murderer's motivation) was sort of dumb, but I liked the murderer reveal even though she was acting kind of obvious the whole time. As always, there's not a ton of character development and this was a very plot-driven book, but I'm enjoying it anyway since that's what this type of book is generally like. I did like that some of the side characters were getting more screen time. I love Kimmy and I hope that she gets to feature more in future books! Also at this point, Lana needs to just open a PI company with her friends since people keep dying around her lol.

One more book and then I'll have to wait till this summer for #9 to be published!

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