Author: Ovidia Yu
Published: September 17th 2013 by William Morrow
Format: Paperback, 264 pages
Genre: Mystery
Series: Singaporean Mystery #1
Don’t mess with an Aunty, especially one that has lived a few years, has a curious mind, and an innate intuition.
Not much gets past Aunty Lee, an owner of a small café in Singapore. She always has her finger in the goings-on, and when a body washes up on Sentosa Beach, she sets her snooping in action. As she prepares for a wine and dine evening for her son’s newest adventure, her mind is whirring. This is when the book becomes an Agatha Christie novel. What does this odd grouping of people have in common? Why here, why this night, and who is the mastermind that created the outcome that would soon have Aunty Lee putting the pieces together while the local police struggle to keep up.
I’m not sure that this is a series that I will continue. The whole feel of the book was choppy and occasionally far-flung. Yes, there were a few characters that I would like to see again, but not enough that I would want to struggle through the uneven passages that made up much of the book.
Not much gets past Aunty Lee, an owner of a small café in Singapore. She always has her finger in the goings-on, and when a body washes up on Sentosa Beach, she sets her snooping in action. As she prepares for a wine and dine evening for her son’s newest adventure, her mind is whirring. This is when the book becomes an Agatha Christie novel. What does this odd grouping of people have in common? Why here, why this night, and who is the mastermind that created the outcome that would soon have Aunty Lee putting the pieces together while the local police struggle to keep up.
I’m not sure that this is a series that I will continue. The whole feel of the book was choppy and occasionally far-flung. Yes, there were a few characters that I would like to see again, but not enough that I would want to struggle through the uneven passages that made up much of the book.
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