The Wedding Sambal: a Malaysian Culinary Cozy Mystery with Retired Pharmacist Sleuth (A Madam Kee Book 13)

She came for a wedding. She left knowing exactly how the groom's grandfather died - and why nobody else could see it. Kee Sook Lin only came to Terengganu to watch a policeman's nephew get married. She did not come to watch a man die at the wedding feast. When the bridegroom's proud old grandfather collapses at his own celebration - struck down in front of four hundred guests, minutes after his wife gives him the injection that should have saved him - everyone in the village calls it a tragedy. Madam Kee, a retired hospital pharmacist two states from home, is the only one who knows it was not. To be certain, she must read a single line on a pharmacy record, sit across a kitchen table from the calmest widow she has ever met, and answer the hardest question of her life - not who did it, or how, but whether a truth this quiet is a truth anyone was ever meant to say aloud. She had seen every kind of guest at a wedding. She had never seen one leave like this. Perfect for readers who love: - Culinary cozy mysteries rich in food, family and place- Amateur sleuths who are women in their sixties - sharp, warm and underestimated- Clever medical and pharmacological clues, fairly planted and solvable- Mysteries set in Malaysia, Singapore and the wider Asian food world- Gentle whodunits with no gore and no graphic violence- Series where every book stands alone but the characters keep growingThe Madam Kee Mysteries follow Kee Sook Lin, a retired clinical pharmacist who runs Stall 8 at a Petaling Jaya hawker centre, as she solves quiet deaths that everyone else has already explained away. Each book can be read on its own. "No monsters - only weak people." Book Thirteen of the Madam Kee Mysteries. Start anywhere.