Peril in Peckham: Book 9 - The Wandering Wok Mysteries
By Christina Crane
CC and Finn park their food truck at Peckham’s Crosby Creatives Festival expecting hipster coffee, spoken word poetry, and a week of serving laksa to appreciative Londoners.
The laksa goes well. The rest goes sideways.
When Baz Hartley – charismatic, insufferable, artisanal moustache – rides his fixie into the path of a bus, it looks like a tragic accident. But something doesn’t add up, and CC can’t stop noticing.
Peckham’s creative community is vibrant and close-knit: artists in warehouse studios, murals on every corner, a barber shop that’s been cutting hair for thirty years. But as CC starts asking questions, she discovers that everyone had a reason to want Baz gone. The charismatic spoken word artist made enemies – more than most, and worse than most.
So what really happened?
With Finn building timelines, three cats who’ve claimed the sunniest spot behind the campervan, and old friends Albert and Jenny who know everyone’s business, CC must navigate artistic rivalries, gentrification tensions, burning documents, and the question of what secrets a community will keep to protect its own.
A deliciously cosy mystery served with Singaporean street food, cold-water swimming, London at its creative best, and three cats who know that fixie bikes without brakes are an accident waiting to happen.
Book Nine in The Wandering Wok Mysteries.
CC and Finn go where the food takes them – a food and wine festival in the Rhône Valley, a market town in Berkshire, a very long Swedish winter, the flower parade in Haarlem – serving bowls of their fragrant laksa from every stop. They travel by campervan, tow their food truck, and bring all three cats. And somehow, wherever they park, someone ends up dead.
Pick a country. Pull up a chair. There’s laksa if you want it.
CC and Finn park their food truck at Peckham’s Crosby Creatives Festival expecting hipster coffee, spoken word poetry, and a week of serving laksa to appreciative Londoners.
The laksa goes well. The rest goes sideways.
When Baz Hartley – charismatic, insufferable, artisanal moustache – rides his fixie into the path of a bus, it looks like a tragic accident. But something doesn’t add up, and CC can’t stop noticing.
Peckham’s creative community is vibrant and close-knit: artists in warehouse studios, murals on every corner, a barber shop that’s been cutting hair for thirty years. But as CC starts asking questions, she discovers that everyone had a reason to want Baz gone. The charismatic spoken word artist made enemies – more than most, and worse than most.
So what really happened?
With Finn building timelines, three cats who’ve claimed the sunniest spot behind the campervan, and old friends Albert and Jenny who know everyone’s business, CC must navigate artistic rivalries, gentrification tensions, burning documents, and the question of what secrets a community will keep to protect its own.
A deliciously cosy mystery served with Singaporean street food, cold-water swimming, London at its creative best, and three cats who know that fixie bikes without brakes are an accident waiting to happen.
Book Nine in The Wandering Wok Mysteries.
CC and Finn go where the food takes them – a food and wine festival in the Rhône Valley, a market town in Berkshire, a very long Swedish winter, the flower parade in Haarlem – serving bowls of their fragrant laksa from every stop. They travel by campervan, tow their food truck, and bring all three cats. And somehow, wherever they park, someone ends up dead.
Pick a country. Pull up a chair. There’s laksa if you want it.