A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint

An environment she knows well as she has worked for an international law firm. With her third novel she certainly made no friends.

The novel is pleasant to read, the detective plot of the following books will be more sophisticated. Finally she pictures the role of a young Englishman with the Penan tribe in Borneo, inspired by the Swiss activist Bruno Manser who disappeared and has never been found. However, she evokes the corruption in Malaysia, particularly in Borneo and the growing importance of Islam and Islamic courts. Shamini criticizes the over perfect and rather cold organization in Singapore and enjoys the charm of Kuala Lumpur. The book is in no way condescending towards Malays as sometimes some novels written in Singapore. Singh is called by the wife of the victim, a former top model from Singapore who is accused of murder. A murder in Kuala Lumpur is a trauma for a Chinese family, wealthy with logging in Borneo. Her first novel published by her publishing company ” Sunbear ” has had good success in Singapore. Singh has difficult relations with his supervisor, a Singapore Chinese, who is not fond of his methods, of his outfit and has a highly developed political sense that could make him forget justice. His wife is very stubborn, however she is a wonderful cook and all dialogues, as Shamini tells us, are simply what she heard in her family. He is a Sikh with his turban, his shorts, his sport shoes and his love for beer and curries. The hero of the detective novels, Singh, was an obvious choice: he had to be an Indian. She began to write books for children: a small girl Sasha, was visiting several Asian capitals which Shamini knows very well after all her business trips. She got a little bored, and regretted her job she teached law at the National University of Singapore and was campaigning for environmental groups and in favor of fair trade. She resigned in 2004 to take care of her two children. She worked for a law firm in Malaysia ( Zain ) and for Linklaters in Singapore. Shamini Flint is 45 years old, she was born in Malaysia and studied with outstanding results law in Malaysia and the UK where she met her husband, an English economist, Simon Flint. Her sixth novel, very pleasant, leads us to Beijing.

Both novels were translated into French (1 ) and the third one will be released within a few days. Shamini Flint has even sold the worldwide rights of her books to an English subsidiary of the Hachette Group. Things change, two writers tell us that Asia and particularly Malaysia can be a particularly suitable environment.

In Asia, we have been reading a lot of detective novels but the masters were Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint