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A review by pallavi_sharma87
The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
4.0
4 stars
A new cozy mystery series which I know I will adore!
Set in 1930s Colonial Singapore, Su Lin is a polio-crippled girl, who also happens to be the grand daughter of island's one of the major money lenders. Her parents are dead and she is cared for by her family's matriarch, her grandmother and her uncle. As her polio limp is considered "bad luck", she gets the benefit of education in colonial era. Though she is highly educated and she wants to be a journalist or a teacher or a secretary, her prospects are lowly works only like childcare, maid, cook etc or get married off ( as per her family).
During one of these prospects of work that is to be a maid to colonial policeman Thomas Le Froy, Su Lin gets entangled with a death at acting Governor Sir Harry Palin's household. She slowly finds out the complex characters and secrets in the house. Finally helping Le Froy to solve the murder mystery.
A delightful read! A good historical mystery.
And Frangipani Trees are common in south India and I remember playing with the flowers in my childhood. I think all the trees mentioned in this series are the around me even now. Happy to come across this series.
Happy Reading!!!
A new cozy mystery series which I know I will adore!
Set in 1930s Colonial Singapore, Su Lin is a polio-crippled girl, who also happens to be the grand daughter of island's one of the major money lenders. Her parents are dead and she is cared for by her family's matriarch, her grandmother and her uncle. As her polio limp is considered "bad luck", she gets the benefit of education in colonial era. Though she is highly educated and she wants to be a journalist or a teacher or a secretary, her prospects are lowly works only like childcare, maid, cook etc or get married off ( as per her family).
During one of these prospects of work that is to be a maid to colonial policeman Thomas Le Froy, Su Lin gets entangled with a death at acting Governor Sir Harry Palin's household. She slowly finds out the complex characters and secrets in the house. Finally helping Le Froy to solve the murder mystery.
A delightful read! A good historical mystery.
And Frangipani Trees are common in south India and I remember playing with the flowers in my childhood. I think all the trees mentioned in this series are the around me even now. Happy to come across this series.
Happy Reading!!!