Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it, he thinks she didn't do it, but no matter how hard he tries to get to the bottom of things, he still arrives back at the same place - that Chelsea's husband was shot at point blank range, and that Chelsea had the best motivation to pull the trigger: he was taking her kids away from her. Now Ins... continue
Inspector Singh is irate. He's been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London: a job for paper pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned. And as if that isn't bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for souvenirs and visit previously unknown relatives. But it isn't long before the cold case that lands on Singh's ample lap turns into a hot potato and he has to outwit Scotland Yard, his wife and London's finest criminals to prevent more frightful executions from occurring on his watch - or indeed, from being added to their number.
Nach den ethnischen Unruhen im Mai 1969 verlässt Ai Lian, eine junge chinesische Malaysierin, ihre Heimat. In München lernt sie den Engländer Michael Templeton kennen, der, ebenfalls in Malaysia, auf der Kautschukplantage seines Vaters aufgewachsen ist. Sie verlieben sich und wollen Weihnachten gemeinsam auf dem Anwesen von Michaels Vater verbringen. Bei ihrer Ankunft geschieht jedoch ein Mord, in dessen Aufklärung Ai Lian schnell verwickelt wird ... Ein kunstvoll komponierter Kriminalroman – die Templeton-Kautschukplantage mitten im Dschungel dient dabei als Mikrokosmos, der die multikulturel... continue