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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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Fatal Fried Rice is the latest installment of the Noodle Shop Mysteries by Vivien Chien. Lana finds herself tangled in another murder investigation when she discovers the body of her new cooking teacher after the first day of class. She must solve the case to clear her name when it becomes obvious that the unfriendly lead detective considers her the prime suspect.
While it seems to be getting a little more difficult to find ways to contrive murders that Lana is connected to and therefore must investigate, this story was as enjoyable as all the others in the series. It includes all the characters we know and love, and Lana continues to be relatable to anyone in their late 20s trying to adult while feeling woefully unprepared. This is a fun series!
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10 primary booksNoodle Shop Mystery is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Vivien Chien.