Name: Poison in the Sour Plum: A Malaysian Culinary Cozy Mystery with a Retired Pharmacist Sleuth — The Madam Mariam Kee Mysteries, Book 2 (Madam Mariam Kee Culinary Mysteries) (en Inglés)
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Author: Hwa, Kim
ISBN: 9798171821371

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Poison in the Sour Plum: A Malaysian Culinary Cozy Mystery with a Retired Pharmacist Sleuth — The Madam Mariam Kee Mysteries, Book 2 (Madam Mariam Kee Culinary Mysteries) (en Inglés)

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Independently published

Autor

Hwa, Kim

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Inglés

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354

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Tapa Blanda

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9798171821371

Poison in the Sour Plum: A Malaysian Culinary Cozy Mystery with a Retired Pharmacist Sleuth — The Madam Mariam Kee Mysteries, Book 2 (Madam Mariam Kee Culinary Mysteries) (en Inglés)

Hwa, Kim (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

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She spent twenty-eight years reading poison off prescription labels. She missed this one for six weeks. An old woman dies behind her own drinks stall on an ordinary Sunday morning. The certificate says cardiac arrest, and the certificate is not wrong — it is simply the answer to a question nobody asked. Madam Mariam Kee was forty metres away. She had noticed the weight loss. She had asked one question and taken the answer, because that is what you do with a proud woman of seventy-two who does not want to be examined. Six weeks later she understands exactly what she watched happen. There is nothing in that hawker centre that looks like a murder. No weapon, no scene, no moment anybody could have walked in on. Only a jar of preserved sour plums on a counter, filled by a kind man every month for fifteen years — and a change, in March, that nobody tasted. To find it, Mariam has to do the one thing she has spent a year refusing to do: ask. Ask the friend who stopped telling her things. Ask the husband she married eighteen months ago. Ask the police sergeant who has no jurisdiction and everything to lose. And finally ask the man four stalls down, in his own kitchen, standing up — knowing that if she is wrong, thirty years of neighborliness ends in a single afternoon. For readers who love Vivien Chien's Noodle Shop Mysteries, Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong, Ovidia Yu's Aunty Lee, and the older, wiser sleuths of the Thursday Murder Club. Why readers keep coming back to Madam Kee Real Malaysian food, cooked properly — congee at five-forty in the morning, thosai that shatters on the plate, and the eleven-second window before fried shallots turn bitter A sleuth with actual expertise — twenty-eight years of clinical pharmacy, and a poisoning that is medically real and entirely fair play A clean, gentle whodunit — no gore, no profanity, no cruelty; the horror here is quieter and much sadder Two authentic recipes included, plus a pharmacology note and a Malaysian English glossary Every book stands alone — start here if you like, then go back Set in a Petaling Jaya hawker centre where thirty stallholders have known each other for thirty years, and nobody has ever once said the important thing out loud. Pull up a stool. The congee is ready.