99 Ways To Die

Ed Lin’s third funny, food-forward mystery set in and around Taipei’s bustling night market

Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporate bank/real estate company, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to sell in China.
 
Jing-nan feels sorry for Peggy, who is worried about her dad, but not so sorry that he’s happy when she blackmails him into helping out. Peggy is worried the kidnappers’ deadline will pass before the police, whom she doesn’t trust, will be able to track down the chip. But when the reluctant Jing-nan tries to help, he finds himself getting deeper and deeper into trouble with some very unsavory characters—the most unsavory of whom might very well be the victim himself.

Cel de-al treilea mister amuzant al Ed Lin, care se bucura de mancare, se afla in piata de noapte plina de viata din Taipei, Jing-nan il cunoaste pe Peggy Lee, un frenemy agresiv care conduce imensa banca corporativa a familiei sale / compania imobiliara, inca din liceu. Tatal lui Peggy a fost rapit, iar rascumpararea pe care o cer rapitorii nu sunt bani, ci IP: un cip de memorie de inalta tehnologie pe care vor sa-l vanda in China.