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The Yellow Rambutan Tree Mystery

When two of Uncle Chen’s associates come visiting Chen Mansion on the third day of Chinese New Year – an unlucky date in the Chinese calendar – Su Lin doesn’t let them in. Not just because of the taboo, but because her uncle has been unwell. But the bad luck has clearly followed them as one of them is soon discovered outside the house, dead, with a strip of dried yellow rambutan peel in his mouth. And the other associate has gone missing…

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Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore’s best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had over thirty plays produced and is the author of a number of comic mysteries published in UK, USA, India, Japan and of course Singapore. She received a Fulbright to the University of Iowa’s International Writers Program and was awarded the S.E.A. Write Award for Singapore and was recently inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame.

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Books By Ovidia Yu

The Mushroom Tree Mystery
The Cannonball Tree Mystery
The Mimosa Tree Mystery
The Paper Bark Tree Mystery

The Mushroom Tree Mystery

The Mushroom Tree Mystery is set in Singapore in a time when the Allies have defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan refuses to surrender the East.

The Cannonball Tree Mystery

In Syonan (Japanese Occupied Singapore) Su Lin goes to work for the Japanese overlords to keep her family safe… in a house with a cursed cannonball tree.

The Mimosa Tree Mystery

In Japanese Occupied Singapore, Su Lin’s neighbour, a known collaborator is found murdered in his garden, clutching a sprig of mimosa.

The Paper Bark Tree Mystery

The third novel in Ovidia Yu’s delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin.

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery
The Frangipani Tree Mystery
Meddling and Murder
Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery

The second novel in Ovidia Yu’s delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin.

The Frangipani Tree Mystery

The Frangipani Tree Mystery is set in 1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore where the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem far away.

Meddling and
Murder

Rosie ‘Aunty’ Lee, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant, finds herself in the middle of a missing person’s case while trying to help a friend.

Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge

Rosie ‘Aunty’ Lee — feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant — is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.

Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
Aunty Lee's Delights

Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials

Rosie ‘Aunty’ Lee, the feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant, is back in another delectable, witty mystery involving scandal and murder among the city’s elite.

Aunty Lee’s
Delights

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant.