Book review
Quirky characters and Singapore history anchor Ovidia Yu’s The Tembusu Tree Mystery
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The Tembusu Tree Mystery is the latest instalment in Ovidia Yu's long-running Crown Colony series.
PHOTOS: ST FILE, CONSTABLE
By Ovidia Yu
Fiction/Constable/Paperback/320 pages/$23.95
Quietly, without much fuss, Ovidia Yu has become one of the key chroniclers of Singapore history via her long-running Crown Colony cosy fiction series. The Tembusu Tree Mystery is the 10th instalment since the series debuted in 2017 with The Frangipani Tree Mystery.