(See also: every romance novel ever.) Lila has a large community of Filipino relatives, friends, and frenemies, and over the course of the book, she also forges connections with the other restaurant owners in her area. So when he dies in the middle of a meal at Tita Rosie’s Kitchen, Lila is immediately cast under suspicion, and she’ll go down for murder if she can’t find the person who did the deed.Īs I’ve mentioned, I always feel such a sense of hope and possibility when I see an author setting up a new genre series. Except it turns out he’s a jerk now, and he’s been writing terrible reviews of every restaurant in the area, including Lila’s. In a total rom-com move, she reunites with her college boyfriend, Derek. Lila has moved back home to be with her family and help her Tita Rosie run her restaurant. It’s got a very classic Agatha Christie-ish set-up, with a large community of people who had a motive to kill the dead guy, plenty of red herrings, and every indication that its protagonist will become an amateur sleuth going forward.
It worked with spinach and it’s going to work with mystery novels.Īrsenic and Adobo was a perfect mystery to help me dip my toe back in the mystery novel waters. But I am undeterred! If I keep trying, eventually I will alter my reading habits and then I will love mysteries. Not because I’ve read mysteries that were my enemies, but more because I have a hard time, when I’ve picked up one mystery novel, remembering to go back and pick up another.
I am constantly endeavoring to get myself into mystery novels, after a lifetime of reading almost no mystery novels, and my results have been… mixed.
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