{"product_id":"the-rose-apple-tree-mystery-crown-colony-paperback","title":"The Rose Apple Tree Mystery (Crown Colony) Paperback","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The sharpest exercise in decolonising fiction in\nSingapore's literary landscape. It is also, simply, really fun to read!' \u003c\/b\u003e-\nOng Sor Fern\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n----------\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n'Til death do us part...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSingapore, 1947. Newlyweds Su Lin and Le Froy are in the Cameron Highlands, an\nidyllic pocket of countryside on the tropical Malay Peninsula. But this is no\nhoneymoon ... Le Froy is on a protection assignment for powerful businessman\nMax Moreno and his wife Elfrieda, whose associates have been brutally murdered.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut the hideaway cannot protect the Morenos from vicious threats and ghostly\nsightings, and when Elfrieda vanishes with a stash of precious emeralds, Su Lin\nand Le Froy fear the worst. The only clue to Elfrieda's disappearance is\nrotting fruit from a rose apple tree, piled outside her lodge.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen monsoon floods make escape from the Highlands impossible, Su Lin is\ndetermined to find Elfrieda with time to spare to get to know her new husband.\nBut when Max's body is discovered surrounded by rose apples, passion turns to\npolicing: Su Lin and Le Froy must work together try to prevent further deaths,\nincluding their own.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n----------\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ovidia Yu:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'One of Singapore's finest living authors'\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eSouth China\nMorning Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- The\nScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Chen Su Lin is a true gem. Her slyly witty voice and her admirable,\nsometimes heartbreaking, practicality make her the most beguiling narrator\nheroine I've met in a long while\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Catriona McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharming and fascinating with great authentic feel. Ovidia Yu's\nteenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different culture and\ntime. This book is exactly why I love historical novels\u003ci\u003e' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eRhys\nBowen\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Unassuming, brilliantly observant' \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSCMP\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Ovidia Yu's writing helped me peel back the layers to understand Singapore.\nThe story and Chen Su Lin's initiative and tenacity, set against a backdrop of\nwartime Singapore, intrigued both the historian and the mystery lover in\nme' \u003c\/b\u003e- Kara Owens CMG CVO, British High Commissioner to Singapore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOvidia Yu is one of Singapore's best-known and most\nacclaimed writers. She has had over thirty plays produced and is the author of\na number of comic mysteries published in Singapore, India, Japan and America.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nShe received a Fulbright to the University of Iowa's International Writers\nProgram and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore\nand was awarded the S.E.A. Write Award for Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44979958874319,"sku":"9781408717028","price":23.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_91d60a39-3010-49df-9f01-819064c714e6.jpg?v=1776134506","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-rose-apple-tree-mystery-crown-colony-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}