![]() ![]() ![]() Lila’s cousin Bernadette becomes the prime suspect, and Lila knows she’s got to vindicate her family’s innocence – again. Lila, as a former winner, might be experienced, but she’s certainly unprepared for another murder when Rob Thompson – whose family underwrites the pageant – is found dead. Kang.Īs if she needed more pressure, Lila agrees to be the last-minute replacement judge for the Miss Teen Shady Palms Pageant. Mostly Lila is practicing denial, despite panic attacks, truculently resistant to calling therapist Dr. She’s somehow juggling two eligible single men – Adeena’s lawyer brother, Amir, and dentist Dr. Being distracted means she’s not quite the equal business partner to BFF Adeena and Adeena’s girlfriend, Elena, at their Brew-ha Café. Manansala’s enticing second installment of her toothsome Tita Rosie’s Kitchen series opens with a warning: “I wrote Homicide and Halo-Halo while both me and my protagonist, Lila, were in rather dark places in our lives.” Introduced – and nearly killed – in Arsenic and Adobo, Lila “is still working through the repercussions” of solving a murder and avoiding her own a few months earlier. ![]()
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