Take a Chance Book Club: "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"
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This month's genre is the cozy mystery, and the book selection is "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q. Sutanto
*Please note that due to scheduling conflicts, September's book club discussion meeting will be the third Monday of the month.
025 Reading List
- Jan. 13: "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab (Fantasy)
- Feb. 10: "All the Sinners Bleed" by S.A. Cosby (Thriller/Noir Fiction)
- Mar. 10: "Fourteen Days" by The Authors Guild (Collaborative Novel)
- Apr. 14: "North Woods: A Novel" by Daniel Mason (Historical Fiction)
- May 12: "House of Sticks" by Ly Tran (Memoir)
- June 9: "I Kissed Shara Wheeler" by Casey McQuiston (Young Adult)
- July 14: "The Mighty Red" by Louise Erdrich (Coming-of-Age Novel)
- Aug. 11: "Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum" by Antonia Hylton (Nonfiction/Social Welfare)
- Sept. 15: "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Cozy Mystery)
- Oct. 13: "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Magical Realism/Romance)
- Nov. 10: "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)
- Dec. 8: Reader's Choice! Let's pick our favorite genre!
A limited number of reserved print copies of the selected book will be available at Westover Library circulation desk approximately one month before the book club meeting. Books are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons are also encouraged to place holds on available print or digital copies.
For more information, please call the Westover Branch Library at 703-228-5260.
- Date:
- Monday, September 15, 2025
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Longfellow Room
- Library:
- Westover Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About the book: Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?