The release date for the English version of 'Arsenic and Adobo' by
Mia P. Manansala is May 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The first of a brand-new, deliciously funny culinary cosy series that promises biting humour and mouthwatering recipes that might potentially be fatal.
Lila Macapagal's life seems to be playing out just like a rom-com when she returns home to heal after a terrible breakup. She has to cope with a gaggle of matchmaking aunts who offer her love and criticism as she tries to save her Tita Rosie's faltering business. But her life swiftly veers from a Nora Ephron frolic to an Agatha Christie mystery when a famously hostile food reviewer (who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend) dies dead seconds after a dispute with Lila.
Lila is forced to undertake her own investigation as the police are treating her like the lone suspect and the unscrupulous landlord wants to ultimately evict the Macapagal family and resell the shop. Equipped with the inquisitive auntie network, her closest friend who works as a barista, and her dependable Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila tackles this delectable and convoluted case and soon finds herself facing the knife.