A couple of years later,
The Frangipani Tree Mystery is again $0.99 in the US. I've since read this one, and all of the later books in the series, and they are not quite as cozy as Yu's earlier Auntie Lee series. They are set in Singapore in the run-up to, and lately, during, the WWII Japanese occupation, and have some cozy moments, but also definitely some not-at-all cozy moments.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075WRF64F
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B075WRF64F
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tree-mystery-1
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Originally Posted by sufue
If you are willing to take your murder with a big dose of cozy...
Ovidia Yu's The Frangipani Tree Mystery is the first in Yu's Crown Colony series set in 1930's Singapore. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK, possibly due to the imminent release of the 2nd in the series, due in June.
I've read and quite enjoyed Yu's Auntie Lee series, set in modern day Singapore, possibly because I've been lucky enough to have a couple of business trips to Singapore, so I can picture some of the settings/culture. But although Yu does deal with some troubling subjects from time-to-time, there still is a lot of cozy in her books too. I haven't read this one, but it will float in somewhere near the top of my TBR list.
Anyway, here's the link for Frangipani: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frangipani-...dp/B01MSIHY1D/ |