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In the Wake of Terror – Rosaly Puthucheary

In the Wake of Terror is a thought-provoking narrative of a 25-year-old immigrant, Li Mei, a medical doctor and writer, in search of a new identity in a politically awakened Singapore in the fifties.

The novel dramatises the crucial years before the People’s Action Party comes into power, and examines how a doctor, wife of a police officer, is forced to become aware of the unnamed feelings in the substratum of her being in the city. The story is woven into the fabric of a society suffering from the aftermath of terror.

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Custody – Manju Kapur

The story of two marriages which disintegrate and intertwine with heart-rending consequences.

When Shagun leaves her husband Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is at stake – and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom.

Raman’s new wife is unable to have children of her own, and finds another chance at happiness as a stepmother. But when the courts threaten the security of her new family, she decides she must fight for it – whatever the cost.

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Match Fixer – Neil Humphreys

Match fixing is destroying The Beautiful Game in Asia, and corruption has spread its tentacles into ‘squeaky-clean’ Singapore. Feeding off the insatiable gambling habits of the local population, illegal football betting has made a select few bookies – particularly one named Tiger – very rich and far too powerful.

Against such a backdrop, Chris Osborne, a young handsome striker from the West Ham United academy, arrives on the Singapore football scene. A series of unexpected events at West Ham and Melbourne Victory has seen Chris – once tipped to play for England – end up at an S-League club in a desperate bid to get his faltering career back on track. However, not even a boyhood spent growing up in London’s East End prepares him for the bent bookies, dubious team-mates, the underground party drugs scene and a seductively beautiful journalist that welcome him to life in paradise.

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Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver – Shamini Flint

Inspector Singh is sick of being on 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 into a curious murder investigation with very firm instructions from Mrs Singh to exonerate her family. But as he uncovers layer upon layer of decit, he knows it isn’t going to be that easy…

This is the fifth chapter of the serious about the portly, sweating, dishevelled and wheezing Inspector Singh of the Singapore Police Force. The other chapters are –

  1. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
  2. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
  3. Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villainy
  4. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree

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A Thread of Sky – Deanna Fei

When her husband of thirty years is killed, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. In a desperate attempt to heal her fractured family, Irene plans a tour of mainland China, reuniting three generations of women – her fiercely independent daughters, her distant poet sister, and her formidable eighty-year-old mother. But each woman bears secrets big and small, and just as they begin to reconnect, the most carefully guarded secret of all threatens to tear them apart forever. Depicting a China at once timeless and ever changing, A Thread of Sky is a beautiful written story of love and sacrifice, history and memory, sisterhood and motherhood, and the connections that endure.