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A cozy culinary mystery set in Kathmandu, Nepal! Murder is on the menu inThamel. When a dead body is found in the alley behind Suraj Bahadur Thapa'sbeloved momo shop — clutching one of HIS momo boxes — Suraj becomes thepolice's suspect number one. With his shop sealed and his father's legacyon the line, Suraj does the only sensible thing: he starts feeding thesuspects and following the clues.

The eleventh of November, 1925. In a Cotswold village that has spent two years arguing about a clock, a man goes to bed with a headache and does not wake, and every hour in the parish is wrong.Letty Vaughan runs the Little Aldwyn telephone board from a shelf of stamps in the Post Office, and she knows something the courts do not: the board's clock has been twelve minutes fast since the day the tower stopped striking. The dead man knew it too. He had be...

A ceremonial feast in an ancient teak courtyard. A golden plate of mango sticky rice. A greedy heir choked by his own silver spoon.When twenty-eight-year-old Bangkok noodle cook Chaiyan "Chai" Varma-Siri and his formidable grandmother, Yai Nok, travel north to Chiang Mai during the vibrant Songkran water festival, they expect a peaceful holiday catering the 70th birthday feast of northern dessert matriarch Mae Buaphan.Instead, they walk straight into an anc...

A steaming bowl of five-spice broth. A greedy landlord choked in blue Italian silk. Can one open-air noodle cook clear his name before his historic market is demolished?Twenty-eight-year-old Chaiyan "Chai" Varma-Siri traded the high-pressure world of Michelin-starred French kitchens for his late grandfather's open-air noodle cart on the canal edges of Bangkok's historic Talat Phlu Night Market. Here, life follows an honest rhythm: simmer the broth for eight hours u...

High in the mist of Doi Mae Salong, the third cup turns deadly.When street cook Chaiyan "Chai" Varma-Siri and his sharp-tongued grandmother, Yai Nok, travel into the cloud-covered mountain ridges of Chiang Rai for the annual Moon Festival Tea Exposition, they anticipate a peaceful weekend celebrating the rich heritage of northern Thailand's Yunnanese high-mountain oolong tea. But during the festival's most sacred ceremony, tragedy strikes the mountain.Maste...

One wedding. One ex in red. One body by the well.Momo-shop owner and reluctant amateur sleuth Suraj Bahadur Thapa came to Bhaktapur for his best friend's cousin's wedding — steamer off, notebook closed, NO murders allowed. Then the groom's college ex-girlfriend is found dead in the heritage hotel courtyard at dawn, the bride becomes suspect number one, and Suraj's detective instincts fire up faster than a coal stove.With his food-obsessed mother, his notebook-wielding best ...

Armistice Sunday, 1923. The village of Little Aldwyn has one church, one pub, one telephone, and one woman who hears all of them.Letty Vaughan has run the Little Aldwyn exchange from the back room of the Post Office for four years, and she keeps its books the way other people keep their conscience. So when Edmund Fenn, the parish's most unloved and most careful man, walks in at ten to eight to hold a trunk call from London and asks to be rung back at t...

Beneath the glowing lanterns of Amphawa, a silent poison strikes.When street cook Chaiyan "Chai" Sirisuk and his sharp-tongued grandmother, Yai Nok, travel down to the enchanted tidal canals of Samut Songkhram for the annual King Rama II Memorial Regatta, they anticipate a joyful weekend celebrating authentic Siamese boat noodle traditions. But before the first ceremonial race is completed, tragedy strikes the floating market.Mae Mali, the beloved eighty-ye...

One sweet was meant for the river. One was meant for a man.Street cook Chaiyan "Chai" Varma-Siri and his sharp-tongued grandmother, Yai Nok, are guests of honor at the Festival of a Hundred Lamps, a lavish re-creation of a royal supper held in 1897. On a terrace above a lotus pond in Bangkok's Dusit palace quarter, the curator of the Royal Cuisine Archive raises a toast to a woman the palace erased from its own records, and then reads out twelve lines of verse foun...

MURDER AT THE RHINO RESORTSuraj Bahadur Thapa, Kathmandu's most unlikely detective, is back — and this time the case comes with a jungle view.When a retired colonel invites the family to a gala at his riverside resort in Chitwan — home of the great one-horned rhino — Suraj packs up the whole crew: sharp-eyed Maya, deputy-in-training Bibek (plus his brand-new mammal chart), photographer Elena, his ladle-wielding Aama, loyal Kalu the dog, and Dumplin...

MURDER AT THE LAKESIDE KITCHENSuraj Bahadur Thapa, Kathmandu's most unlikely detective, is back — and this time the case comes with a lakeside view.When a desperate letter arrives from Pokhara — a head chef vanished, a kitchen gone cold, and a raw fish with a threatening note in its mouth — Suraj packs up the whole family: sharp-eyed Maya, deputy-in-training Bibek (plus his beloved fish chart), photographer Elena, his ladle-wielding Aama, loyal Kalu the dog, and Dumpling th...

The Shillong Honeymoon Murder: A True Crime NovelA marriage born of tradition. A honeymoon destination shrouded in beauty. A chilling plot hatched in the shadows.In the serene, mist-laden hills of Meghalaya, a newlywed dream turns into a nightmarish reality. Raja Raghuvanshi, full of optimism, sets off on his honeymoon with his beautiful bride, Sonam. But beneath the facade of marital bliss, a treacherous conspiracy unfolds, driven by illicit passion and ruthless ambition.