Meet Inspector Singh: a fat, slightly bumbling, but truly lovable detective sure to charm readers of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.
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 Inspector Singh must pull out all the stops to crack a crime that could potentially free a beautiful and innocent woman and reunite a mother with her children. There's just one problem—the Malaysian police refuse to play ball.
”Flint keeps the reader hooked right up to the unexpected resolution.” —Publishers Weekly
”A charming and solid mystery with an enticing international atmosphere.” —Booklist
”It's impossible not to warm to the portly, sweating, dishevelled, wheezing Inspector Singh from the start of this delightful debut novel.” —The Guardian
”I like Flint’s smooth style and the rhythm of her writing, as well as her ability in making real an environment so far removed from ours, globalisation notwithstanding.” —Thriller Books Journal (UK)
(Group read suggestion from Gemma Ware, book club moderator.)
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