Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials

Singapore's best-loved restaurateur, Rosie Lee, makes everyone's business her own, so it's no surprise that when a scandal involving illegal organ donation makes news, she has suspicions about which prominent local figures might be involved. Just as the news is breaking, Aunty Lee's Delights is hired to cater a brunch for local socialites Henry and Mabel Sung. The party is at the Sungs' opulent city house-grander than Aunty Lee's own, although she has heard rumors that the Sung's fortune is not as stable as her late husband's-and while setting up for the party, Aunty Lee discovers a locked storage house on the Sung grounds that has her intrigued.

But all is not well at the brunch. The Sungs are heard quarrelling in private; the guest of honor never shows for the party and as the last plates are being washed, Mabel and her son Leonard are found dead. The authorities immediately suspect Aunty Lee's special stewed chicken with buah keluak, a black nut indigenous to the region that, if prepared incorrectly, can be poisonous.

Their deaths are blamed on Aunty Lee's carelessness and the naturally occurring cyanide in the buah keluak nuts. Aunty Lee knows this is impossible-she has never carelessly prepared a dish in her life. To save her business and reputation, she follows her suspicion that the deaths were no accident, and probably related to the recent organ donor scandal. What she uncovers is evidence of a double murder, and a killer prepared to kill again...