Windows To The World

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Singapore is not Kuala Lampur Inspector Singh keeps reminding himself as he travels around this very busy city which is the federal capitol and the most populous city in Malaysia. He has been sent here from the beautiful, well regulated Singapore where he has been getting on the nerves of some of his superiors, to help with the case of Chelsea Liew, a former model who has been accused of murdering her abusive, philandering, quite wealthy  husband. She was from Singapore originally.

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At this point in  her life however, Chelsea is the mother of three boys who mean the world to her and even though her dead spouse was using all the power at his command take her children away from her. She will do anything to prevent this, but would she commit murder? His latest scheme was to convert to Islam which would force the courts to give the children to him. This is just one way in which his Machiavellian mind works. He has made enemies of many people over the years, including his brothers  and people who would like to stop him from decimating the remaining reserved forests in order to supply lumber to insatiable countries who are building like beavers.


Singh is an intriguing man, almost like a beaver in that he forges ahead with his investigation despite setbacks. He has a certain way which gets results where others give up.
I really enjoyed this first of a series and I am really looking forward to reading the next installment which takes place in Bali.

Kuala Lampur is  home of the Petronas Twin Towers which were the highest buildings in the world until surpassed by Taipei 101 in 2004.