Log In to see more information about Mia P. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2019 mentor. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. And I’d learned, time and again, she was right. Manansala is a writer from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo 2 likes Like almost said just friends, as if romantic partnership was superior to platonic friendship, but stopped myself. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture, and is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. But when the head judge of the pageant is murdered and Bernadette becomes the main suspect, the two must put aside their differences and solve the case-because it looks like one of them might be next.Ĭontent Warning: PTSD, fatphobia, fertility/pregnancy issues, predatory behavior, unresolved grief, parental death (occurred in childhood), and dismissive attitudes toward mental health.Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and certified book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila’s little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago-a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started. Manansala (Author) (2,544) A RUSA Award-winning novel The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishesone that might just be killer. Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal.

Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P.

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