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Plongez dans le monde vibrant mais dangereux de Singapour des années 1930 dans cette captivante série policière. Suivez une jeune femme intelligente qui, tout en travaillant comme gouvernante pour le gouverneur par intérim, se retrouve entraînée dans la résolution d'énigmes déroutantes. Elle navigue dans un paysage d'intrigues coloniales, de complexités sociales et de dangers cachés pour découvrir la vérité.

The Mimosa Tree Mystery
The Frangipani Tree Mystery
The Paper Bark Tree Mystery
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery

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    The Frangipani Tree Mystery

    3,7(204)Évaluer

    1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl Su Lin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place.But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House. It now takes all Su Lin's traditional skills and intelligence to help British-born Chief Inspector Thomas LeFroy solve the murders - and escape with her own life.

    The Frangipani Tree Mystery
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    The Paper Bark Tree Mystery

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    3,9(75)Évaluer

    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.room.

    The Paper Bark Tree Mystery
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    The Mimosa Tree Mystery

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    3,9(317)Évaluer

    "Mirza, a secretive neighbour of the Chens in Japanese Occupied Singapore, is a known collaborator and blackmailer. So when he is murdered in his garden, clutching a branch of mimosa, the suspects include local acquaintances, Japanese officials - and hisown daughters. Su Lin's Uncle Chen is among those rounded up by the Japanese as reprisal. Hideki Tagawa, a former spy expelled by police officer Le Froy and a power in the new regime, offers Su Lin her uncle's life in exchange for using her fluency in languages and knowledge of locals to find the real killer. Su Lin soon discovers Hideki has an ulterior motive. Friends, enemies and even the victim are not what they seem. There is more at stake here than one man's life. Su Lin must find out who killed Mirza and why, before Le Froy and other former colleagues detained or working with the resistance suffer the consequences of Mirza's last secret."-- Provided by publisher

    The Mimosa Tree Mystery