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A review by pallavi_sharma87
The Paper Bark Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
4.0
4.5 star
Su Lin has lost her dream job, the secretary at Police shack to a dumb English girl named "Dolly Darling". Because a new associate from Crown (who thinks so!) Bernard Hemsworth deems it security risk for a local girl to work at a British colony's police department. Not only here, Bald Bernie (Bernard) has poked his nose in many such places and is hated by almost everyone.
The story changes when Su Lin and Dolly finds Bald Bernie dead in police departments' archive room. Who hated him that bad to have him killed?
Set in the backdrop of raising Indian nationalism, illegal diamonds, smuggling and Japanese propaganda, the story twists and turns in a way that the reader keeps guessing the climax. There were so many elements in it that revolved around a few murders. So can't call this a murder mystery, strictly speaking, yet immensely enjoyable.
Happy Reading!!
Su Lin has lost her dream job, the secretary at Police shack to a dumb English girl named "Dolly Darling". Because a new associate from Crown (who thinks so!) Bernard Hemsworth deems it security risk for a local girl to work at a British colony's police department. Not only here, Bald Bernie (Bernard) has poked his nose in many such places and is hated by almost everyone.
The story changes when Su Lin and Dolly finds Bald Bernie dead in police departments' archive room. Who hated him that bad to have him killed?
Set in the backdrop of raising Indian nationalism, illegal diamonds, smuggling and Japanese propaganda, the story twists and turns in a way that the reader keeps guessing the climax. There were so many elements in it that revolved around a few murders. So can't call this a murder mystery, strictly speaking, yet immensely enjoyable.
Happy Reading!!