Changi: A Mystery

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Caught up in a bizarre murder, will Violet's family fight for the truth or fight each other Violet has organised her life in Singapore with a zeal that keeps her family close by her side, and any intimacy safely at bay. While she chases the attention of a German doctor, her daughter and her friends spend their days lost in a hollow world of make believe, memories, and old Agatha Christie novels. But a death shatters Violet's grip on the world around her. Was this murder, accident, or suicide With the authorities drawing closer the family have just hours to try and piece together what really happened. Is this a puzzle, a tragedy, or a crime Is Violet's role to bring the truth to light, or bury it alongside the rest of Changi camp's grizzly history Over the next 48 hours, Violet will find out once and for all whether her efforts to control her family's lives have protected them, or simply left them at the mercy of someone else's stories. Changi is a story of obsession, revenge and jealousy that mixes stark emotional power with elements of a classic whodunit.

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Scott Anthony is a writer and historian based in Singapore. After completing an MA in Writing at the University of Warwick, he worked as a journalist at Future Publishing, The Guardian and The Times in the UK. Since moving to South East Asia he's written programmes, scripts, and articles for the BBC, ChannelNewsAsia, The Straits Times, The South China Morning Post, and the London Review of Books.