Misfortune Cookie is the ninth Noodle Shop mystery by Vivien Chien. Released 27th June 2023 by Macmillan on their St. Martin's Press imprint, it's 336 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats. It's
worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of
contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of
ebooks with interactive formats.
Protagonist Lana is refreshingly modern, fairly snarky, honest, loyal, and has a lovely solid healthy relationship with her bff Megan, and tries to get along with her too-perfect sister Anna May (usually unsuccessfully). She has a knack of getting entangled in and solving crimes along with her adorable pug Kikkoman. Lana and Anna May are on work/vacation in this book, so Kikkoman just gets one mention. Hopefully she'll be back in book 10.
The language and writing are clean; nothing worse than an occasional "damn". No on-page violence or abuse, and nothing which is NSFW at all. It would make a good commute or work break read.
Four and a half stars, delightfully fun light cozy mystery series. Although this is book 9, it works perfectly well as a standalone, with the understanding that the characters and their interrelationships have developed over the course of the books. If read out of order, some spoilers should be expected. This would be a good choice for public library acquisition, mystery book club selection, or binge/buddy read.
Disclosure: I received an electronic-ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.
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