Vera Wong is many things, a sixty-year-old meddling woman, a mother, a widow, the owner of an undervalued tea shop, and lonely. All she has left is her absent son, Tilly; the dying tea shop; and her best (and only) customer, Alex. When she wakes one morning to find a dead man clutching a flash drive on the floor of her tea shop, she finds a new purpose as she sets out to find the dead man's murderer. With the flash drive, she stole from the scene and the list of suspects she gathered from the four people who showed up at the tea shop after the "murder", she begins her investigation.

Sutanto crafted the perfect cozy mystery with a stubborn amateur sleuth who is determined to get to the bottom of the murder. As she gets closer to each suspect, she finds herself wondering how she will have the heart to turn in someone she has grown to love.

Humor, found family, murder... Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers seems to have it all. This has to be one of my favorite reads. I'm a sucker for found family and meddling (grand)parents. This novel centers around the theme of family and the ties that bond individuals together. Throughout the book, I found myself wanting to get to the bottom of the murder and Sutanto does a great job of casting doubt on each character while making you hope that they weren't the killer.