Mia P. Manansala

Arsenic and Adobo puts a Filipino American woman back in her small Illinois town, working in her aunt's struggling restaurant, when her ex-boyfriend dies face down in her food.

Manansala uses the cosy mystery frame to write a family that feeds people as its entire language of care, with recipes at the back and a great deal of pressure about marriage.

She has been open that the Filipino food and the aunties are the point and the murder is the delivery mechanism.