The Feng Shui Detective Goes South

Second in the 'Feng Shui Detective' series.

The first book in this series, 'The Feng Shui Detective', a collection of short stories, was praised for introducing a lively new cross-cultural partnership into crime fiction. In this second novel, feng shui master CF Wong and his young assistant set off on a journey to solve a murder before it occurs . . .

CF Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve more than interior decoration. He and his brash young intern, Joyce McQuinnie, travel around Asia solving crimes and trying comically to come to terms with each other's language and behaviour.

In Singapore, Mr Wong and other members of the Union of Industrial Mystics are introduced to a young woman who, all their mystical arts tell them, is doomed to die. Their desperate efforts to save her eventually lead CF Wong and Joyce to Sydney, where the book climaxes at the Opera House, a building with appalling feng shui.