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MR WONG GOES WEST: A FENG
SHUI DETECTIVE NOVEL
by Nury Vittachi
Allen & Unwin, rrp $22.95
ISBN 9781741753851
MR WONG is quite a character. A detective and feng shui master, he is charming, witty and slightly neurotic. Mr Wong is correcting the feng shui on the world's most expensive aircraft when a murder occurs. All the elements of the story -- plot, characters, the feng shui information and wise little Chinese stories -- are terrific, but unfortunately they haven't been brought together as well as they could have been. R.G.
In a word: light
SIZE DOESN'T MATTER
by Meg Cabot
Pan Macmillan, rrp $22.95
ISBN 9780330443951
THE cover suggests fat crisis chick-lit, but this new offering from the author of The Princess Diaries is a murder mystery in TV-sitcom style, starring Cabot's regular droll doll, Heather Wells. Crime-weary Wells arrives at her university job one morning to find her boss dead at his desk. Though she initially shrugs it off as "probably just a stray bullet from some random drug shooting over in the park", Wells picks her way past fumbling police...