Paperback: Singapore/Malaya, 1892.
When a dead American is found floating in Rochor Canal, Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth begins an investigation that quickly leads into a labyrinth of deceit and violence the polyglot steam-cooker of turn-of-the-century Singapore.
As Chinese gangs verge on open turf war and powerful commercial enterprises vie for control of the economy, a stolen statue that houses an ancient Hindu goddess becomes the object of a pursuit with a mounting body count, and it seems that everyone is suffering from maniacal erotic nightmares.
Will Hawksworth be able to restore order before the colony is tipped into a bloodbath?
Explore the dark underbelly of nineteeth-century Singapore's Chinatown and colonial district in this trilogy of hard-boiled historical thrillers, comprising Singapore Black (2013), Singapore Yellow (due for release in 2015) and Singapore Red (?).
About the author: William L Gibson is a writer and educator based in Southeast Asia. He is currently the Campus Academic Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at SAE Institute, Jakarta. William holds a PhD from the University of Leeds.
William's work has appeared in numerous publications, including academic journals as well as commercial magazines such as Signal to Noise and Asian Geographic: The Read. His nonfiction book Art and Money in the Writing of Tobias Smollett was published in 2007. In 2009, he collaborated with the record label Sublime Frequencies to release a compilation of 1960s Singapore-Chinese go-go music. His other crime fiction book is Crime Scene Asia Volume 1: Crime Fiction from India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (2013). More information can be found on the author's website.
Rating: 5/5
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