Longton VM Book Club Monday 17th November 2025 at 8pm The first book in Jesse Sutanto’s Vera Wong series Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is the book selected for our November meeting. Vera Wong is a tea expert owning a tea shop. She likes nothing more than making a cuppa and settling down with her computer to snoop on her son’s whereabouts. Finding a dead body in the middle of her tea shop sets her off on becoming an amateur sleuth as she does not believe that the police will find the killer. Jesse Sutanto’s novel has been compared to Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club novels stating that lovers of the murder club series will also love this book. Reviewers on Amazon suggested it is ‘of warmth, and well-meaning meddling', and the plot has as ‘many twist and turns’. The author grew up in Indonesia and Singapore and currently lives in Jakarta writing children’s and adult fiction. She studied creative writing at Oxford and Berkeley Universities.