Death by Laksa

A retired pharmacist. A perfect murder. And a bowl of assam laksa that changes everything.

When Kee Sook Lin - retired senior pharmacist and widowed congee stall owner - hosts her third anniversary dinner at Pusat Makanan Taman Paramount, she expects nothing more complicated than forty bowls of laksa and a crooked paper lantern.

What she doesn't expect is for her guest - her late husband's oldest friend, a beloved retired doctor - to collapse at the table before he can reveal a secret he has been carrying for three years.

The police call it a cardiac event. Madam Kee calls it murder.

Armed with twenty-eight years of clinical pharmacy knowledge, Madam Kee begins to follow the evidence: a pill organiser that doesn't add up, a stolen batch of controlled medication, and a daughter-in-law with an eight-year head start on planning the perfect crime.

But the deeper she digs, the larger the shadow grows - and the network behind this murder runs further than one family's greed.

Book Three in The Madam Kee Mysteries - the culinary cozy mystery series set in the hawker centres of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Each book works as a standalone.

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• Culinary cozy mysteries with authentic Asian food culture
• Strong female amateur sleuths with professional expertise
• Southeast Asian settings - hawker centres, tropical streets, real Malaysian dishes
• Medical and pharmacological mystery plots