WoW: Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes a YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown.

Los Angeles, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically anyone, especially to the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu whose body they discover one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills mansion where she moved once her fame skyrocketed.

The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the LAPD—known for being corrupt to the core—doesn’t seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that point to the possibility of a police cover-up, and powerful forces in the city want to frame the killing as evidence that Chinatown is a den of iniquity and crime, even more reason it should be demolished to make room for the construction of a new railway depot, Union Station.

Worried that neither the police nor the papers will treat a Chinese girl fairly—no matter how famous and wealthy—the sisters set out to solve their friend’s murder themselves, and maybe save their neighborhood in the bargain. But with Lulu’s killer still on the loose, the girls’ investigation just might put them square in the crosshairs of a coldblooded murderer.

Published by: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Expected Publication: April 23, 2023

Why I’m Waiting: I don’t usually read historical fiction, but pair that with mystery noir and of course I’m going to read it. Without a doubt I’m going to add it to my TBR. And it’s also by Stacey Lee who I’ve heard is amazing. I need to get my hands on this immediately. And I mean look at the cover. Can we say BEAUTIFUL?! I LOVE it.

What about you? Have you read anything by Stacey Lee? Do you like mysteries? Do you like this cover? Let me know in the comments!