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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Traces a young Asian woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with present-day materialism as she hatches a plan to orchestrate marriages between her girlfriends and wealthy Western expats.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Six decades after a young woman from Singapore is forced into sexual slavery during World War II, a twelve-year-old boy's effort to investigate his ailing grandmother's mumbled confession triggers a fateful chain of events.
Author
Series
Inspector Singh investigates volume 5
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
308 p. ;
Description
Inspector Singh is sick of sick leave, so when Mrs. Singh suggests they attend a family wedding in Mumbai, he grudgingly agrees, hoping that the spicy Indian curries will make up for extended exposure to his wife's relatives. Unfortunately, the beautiful bride-to-be disappears on the eve of her wedding?did she run away to avoid an arranged marriage, or is there something more sinister afoot? When a corpse is found, the fat inspector is soon dragged...
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Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers—held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra—battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but find, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
In Singapore, three very different women--Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned "trailing spouse" from the United States--find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 20 cm
Description
After arriving a Singapore just as the month of the hungry ghost is being celebrated, Freja encounters a mysterious girl in a white dress in her garden and follows her to secret parts of the city, hoping that the ghost can help her overcome the secrets ofher past.
Author
Series
Singaporean mysteries volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
360, 12 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After socialite Mabel Sung and her son, suspects in an illegal organ scandal, are found poisoned at a brunch that widow Aunty Lee has catered, Aunty Lee must track down the murderer to save her reputation and possibly her life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve amurder mystery involving one of their own.
Author
Series
Inspector Singh investigates volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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...
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"Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--
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