Egg Drop Dead - bookrastinating.com

mass market paperback, 320 pages

Published Feb. 25, 2020 by St. Martin's Paperbacks.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-22832-1

(1 review)

It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee's first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party's host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That's what Lana—whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting over her occasionally-serious boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau—must find out.

Before the police arrived at the crime scene, Donna had entrusted an odd piece of evidence to Lana: a thumb drive shaped like a terra-cotta soldier. Now it's up to Lana to lead her own investigation, digitally and in real life, into a world of secrets involving Donna's earlier life in China, whether the victim had a dark agenda, and if the killer is still out there. . .and plans to …

It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee's first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party's host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That's what Lana—whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting over her occasionally-serious boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau—must find out.

Before the police arrived at the crime scene, Donna had entrusted an odd piece of evidence to Lana: a thumb drive shaped like a terra-cotta soldier. Now it's up to Lana to lead her own investigation, digitally and in real life, into a world of secrets involving Donna's earlier life in China, whether the victim had a dark agenda, and if the killer is still out there. . .and plans to strike again.

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Allyson M W Dyar reviewed Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien

Review of 'Egg Drop Dead' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Lana decides that she will expand the noodle house business by offering catering. Here first customer is Donna Feng, whose nanny is found floating in the pool during the soirée.

Because Donna is the number one suspect (as she had a verbal altercation during the party with the nanny), she pleads with Lana to investigate the case.

Lana reluctantly agrees to take on the project.

I enjoyed this entry just a tad more than the fourth book.