The Paper Bark Tree Mystery
$24.02
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2019
Summary
’Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life’ Catriona Mcpherson
Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore’s brand new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a ‘local girl’ can’t be trusted with private investigations, and replaces her with a new secretary - pretty, privileged, and white. So Su Lin’s not the only person finding it hard to mourn Bernie after he’s found dead in the filing room. And when her best friend’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472125248 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 147212524X |
| Author: | Ovidia Yu |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 188mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Crown Colony |
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Critics Review
‘Unassuming, brilliantly observant’ – SCMP
‘Charming and fascinating with great authentic feel. Ovidia Yu’s teenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different culture and time. This book is exactly why I love historical novels’
–Rhys Bowen
‘Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life’
–CATRIONA MCPHERSON
‘Unassuming, brilliantly observant’
–SCMP
About The Author
Ovidia Yu
Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore’s best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had over thirty plays produced and is the author of a number of comic mysteries published in Singapore, India, Japan and America.
She received a Fulbright to the University of Iowa’s International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore and was awarded the S.E.A. Write Award for Singapore.
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