Death by Bubble Tea is the first novel in a new cozy mystery series by Jennifer Chow. Wikipedia describes cozy mystery series, or “cozies,” as “a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off-stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.” This first novel of the L.A. Night Market Mysteries has been dubbed by the New York Times as “the first in a fizzy new series.”

Yale Lee, a resident of Eastwood Village near Los Angeles, has just lost her job at a local bookstore when she discovers th...