The Nanny

Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to.

 

Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer.

 

What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?

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432 pages

Average rating: 6.92

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Community Reviews

karinaaa
Jan 23, 2025
5/10 stars
Predictable but still entertaining. I loved the relationship the main character builds with the kid she is nannying.
Court Lin
Jan 17, 2025
6/10 stars
Adorable premise but fell short on execution, got to the point that I liked the little kid involved sections better than the romance
coraline12
Jan 06, 2025
4/10 stars
such a good start i can't for the life of me understand how it turned to one of the most boring things i've read.
joss94
Oct 03, 2024
7/10 stars
book was OKAY. If you like a lot of
Jojos books
Sep 19, 2024
7/10 stars
Smutty and a great romance novel. This author is new to me but I liked her book !

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