Ovidia Yu Books in Order

This collection gathers eight of Yu's plays, including The Woman in a Tree on the Hill and Hitting (On) Women. Together they explore women's lives, family pressure, desire, and public respectability with wit, humor, and bite.

1970s Singapore is rattled by a serial killer targeting single career women. When a fellow teacher is murdered, sensible Miss Moorthy starts asking questions and finds herself in a far messier, more dangerous case than anyone expects.

After her father's death, ten-year-old Lizhi travels to Singapore to meet the family she barely knows. In her grandfather's old house, a carved mudskipper and a string of secrets lead her toward truth, grief, and belonging.

Widowed restaurateur Rosie 'Aunty' Lee would rather feed people than interrogate them, but a corpse on Sentosa and a missing dinner guest look connected. Her search for answers turns into a lively, food-filled mystery about money, secrets, and modern Singapore.

A catered brunch for one of Singapore's rich families ends in disaster when two people die and Aunty Lee's buah keluak chicken takes the blame. To save her restaurant, she has to untangle scandal, family secrets, and murder.

An old animal rescue scandal turns deadly when a disgraced British expat returns to Singapore and is found murdered. Aunty Lee and Cherril dig into old grudges, fresh lies, and a case that refuses to stay in the past.

A man's new younger wife unsettles the family, and suspicion slowly hardens into danger. Set in Singapore, this tight crime story takes a familiar domestic setup and turns it into something far more claustrophobic and cruel.

When a businesswoman says her maid has vanished, Aunty Lee lets Nina step in to help, then starts to suspect something much darker. A missing woman, locked doors, and mounting danger make this one of her most personal cases.

In 1936 colonial Singapore, teenager Su Lin takes a nanny's job at the acting governor's house to escape an arranged marriage. When deaths pile up inside the residence, her quick mind becomes the best hope of catching the killer.

Singapore is buzzing over royal abdication news when Victor Glossop is found dead, soaked in betel nut juice and strange symbols. Su Lin shadows his jittery fiancee and uncovers a case thick with secrets, scandal, and danger.

Su Lin's dream job at Singapore's new detective agency sours when a smug new secretary replaces her and her boss turns up dead. Investigating on her own, she stumbles into stolen diamonds, political unrest, and very personal loss.

In Japanese occupied Singapore, a suspected collaborator is murdered with mimosa in his hand, and Su Lin's uncle is swept up in the reprisals. To save him, she must work with a Japanese official she has no reason to trust.

Working for the occupiers to protect her family, Su Lin enters a house shadowed by superstition and resentment. When bodies begin appearing beneath the cannonball tree, she has to decide whether the danger is human, supernatural, or both.

Advertising executive Lee Jaylin is left reeling when her longtime lover heads off to see the world. Yu turns her tangled relationships and career fatigue into a darkly funny portrait of 1990s Singapore and its relentless pace.

As the war edges toward its end, a young Japanese aide is found murdered and plans for a poison gas bomb disappear. Su Lin races through frightened, occupied Singapore to stop a catastrophe and uncover the real killer.

As the British return to Singapore after the war, Su Lin finds one of her uncle's associates dead outside the family home with rambutan peel in his mouth. Another man is missing, and old loyalties start to crack.

In postwar Singapore, Su Lin finds an old friend beside her dead lover and knows the case is not simple. As the British tighten control again, she must clear her friend's name before the killer strikes twice.

On what should have been a honeymoon in the Cameron Highlands, Su Lin and Le Froy are drawn into threats, a vanished wife, and a trail of rose apples. Monsoon floods trap everyone together as the danger sharpens.

Singapore, 1947. Su Lin is managing the new Imperial Cinema when protests, missing guests, and a death tied to the building's wartime past drag her back into sleuthing at exactly the wrong moment for her family.