Death of a Perm Sec Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2014) For many Serbs

For many Serbs

Yet she can't help searching for a way to change her ruthless world

where most people reside

a schoolgirl is lured into the decadent world of her disreputable aunt

Death of a Perm Sec Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2014) For many SerbsShortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction; Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. In 1980s Singapore, a top civil servant is found dead. It appears to be suicide, by a cocktail of morphine, alcohol and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector, who might not be what he seems, the family discovers there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, reaching the uppermost echelons of government. Death