MYSTERY

Murder and Mamon

Berkley. (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery, Bk. 4). Sept. 2023. 288p. ISBN 9780593549162. pap. $17. M
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Lila Macapagal should have enough on her hands with her partnership in the Brew-ha Cafe. But her extended Filipino American family often demands her help. This time, her godmothers April, Mae, and June, the Calendar Crew, are opening a new laundromat next door to June’s dry-cleaning service. It’s scheduled to open the day of the town’s big spring clean. While Lila and her aunties are at a morning chamber of commerce meeting, someone smashes up the laundromat and graffities it with “Mind Your Business.” The Calendar Crew has certainly stirred up trouble with their gossip, but who would go to the lengths of vandalizing their new business? April’s visiting niece is put to work at the laundromat, but the aunties also ask her to do some spying. When someone ends up dead and another family member lands in the hospital, the family turns to Lila and a former police detective to investigate.
VERDICT The sequel to Blackmail and Bibingka celebrates various food cultures in a mystery that emphasizes the importance of family, anti-bullying, and the search for justice for victims of crime.
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