[Taipei Night Market 03] • 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.