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Mia P. Manansala

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in Chicago, The United States

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Mia P. Manansala is a book coach and the author of ARSENIC AND ADOBO (Berkley 2021), the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series.

She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.

She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor.

A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrastibaking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries, and dreaming of becoming best buds with Wonder Woman ...more

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	Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 61,201 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightning strike / Arsenic and adobo / The last chance library / A deadly twist (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Vol. 383) ; by William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author), Mia P. Manansala (Goodreads Author), Freya Sampson (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 22,379 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 14,859 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 8,155 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4) 4.05 avg rating — 212 ratings — expected publication 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fit for the Gods by Jenn Northington (Editor), S. Zainab Williams (Editor), Marika Bailey 3.82 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In typical Filipino fashion, my aunt expressed her love not through words of encouragement or affectionate embraces, but through food. Food was how she communicated. Food was how she found her place in the world.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo

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“Even someone like me felt utang na loob, that impossible to quantify sense of indebtedness and gratitude, to the people who’d raised me. But where was that magical line between selfishness and independence? Between my family and myself?”
― Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo

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“I made it to Adeena’s fifteen minutes late, which in Brown People Time (BPT) meant I was actually a little early.”
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Which Cozy Mystery would you like to read in May?

The Marlow Murder Club (The Marlow Murder Club #1) by Robert Thorogood

6 votes, 54.5%

Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #2) by Mia P. Manansala

3 votes, 27.3%

Tea & Treachery (Tea by the Sea Mysteries #1) by Vicki Delany

2 votes, 18.2%

The Sleuth Sisters (The Sleuth Sisters Mysteries #1) by Maggie Pill

0 votes, 0.0%

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