It's 1983, and America is obsessed with UFOs.
When several people claim they've been abducted by aliens, one tiny Korean housewife decides she's surrounded by idiots.
Mrs. Maeng Chun has enough to deal with already. Her family believes every superstition imaginable. The town's oldest farmer is rumored to be a shapeshifter. And now her own nephew has vanished... only to return insisting little gray aliens carried him into a flying saucer.
Soon more neighbors disappear and come back with impossible stories of bright lights, strange creatures, and alien abductions. The entire town falls into a full-blown UFO frenzy. Neighbors scan the night sky. Teenagers chase flying saucers. Reporters start asking questions.
Mrs. Chun isn't buying a word of it.
Armed with little more than a Polaroid camera, relentless curiosity, and an absolute refusal to believe in extraterrestrials, the sharp-tongued Korean housewife sets out to prove there's a perfectly ordinary human explanation.
Unfortunately, the more she investigates, the more everyone mistakes her for the town's leading UFO expert.
As rumors spread and victim after victim disappears, Mrs. Chun must uncover what's really behind the mysterious abductions before panic takes over the town.
The UFO Frenzy, the first in the Maeng Chun Cozy Mystery series, is a humorous, clean cozy mystery filled with quirky characters, 1980s nostalgia, Korean family antics, delicious recipes, and a delightfully skeptical sleuth who refuses to believe in little green men... no matter how many people insist they've seen them.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When several people claim they've been abducted by aliens, one tiny Korean housewife decides she's surrounded by idiots.
Mrs. Maeng Chun has enough to deal with already. Her family believes every superstition imaginable. The town's oldest farmer is rumored to be a shapeshifter. And now her own nephew has vanished... only to return insisting little gray aliens carried him into a flying saucer.
Soon more neighbors disappear and come back with impossible stories of bright lights, strange creatures, and alien abductions. The entire town falls into a full-blown UFO frenzy. Neighbors scan the night sky. Teenagers chase flying saucers. Reporters start asking questions.
Mrs. Chun isn't buying a word of it.
Armed with little more than a Polaroid camera, relentless curiosity, and an absolute refusal to believe in extraterrestrials, the sharp-tongued Korean housewife sets out to prove there's a perfectly ordinary human explanation.
Unfortunately, the more she investigates, the more everyone mistakes her for the town's leading UFO expert.
As rumors spread and victim after victim disappears, Mrs. Chun must uncover what's really behind the mysterious abductions before panic takes over the town.
The UFO Frenzy, the first in the Maeng Chun Cozy Mystery series, is a humorous, clean cozy mystery filled with quirky characters, 1980s nostalgia, Korean family antics, delicious recipes, and a delightfully skeptical sleuth who refuses to believe in little green men... no matter how many people insist they've seen them.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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