Then, after “fifteen years of nothing,” her cousin Ronnie turns up – he had disappeared after his no-good father broke his mother Rosie’s heart. The beloved Tita Rosie’s Kitchen, which used to be a “hole-in-the-wall restaurant,” is now a “tourist destination.” Lila is even happily “sorta dating” local hottie dentist, Dr. She’s running her Brew-ha Cafe with her best friend, Adeena, and Adeena’s girlfriend. Lila is living her best life, basking in the warmth of her extended Filipina American family. Manansala and her protagonist, Lila Macapagal, endured in Homicide and Halo-Halo – the second novel in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series – Manansala ( Arsenic and Adobo) opens Blackmail and Bibingka with reassurance, writing in an author’s note: “Lila (and I) are in much better places.” That said, readers can expect plenty of shady shenanigans in Lila’s not-so-quiet little town of Shady Palms, Ill. After the “rather dark places” both Mia P.
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