Looks like more and more lawyers are disillusioned with the practice of law and are wanting out, looking over at other pastures! There was Tan Twan Eng, the Penang born Cape Town based corporate lawyer-turned-author whose two books were listed for the Man Booker's prize - The Gift of Rain (longlisted,2007), The Garden of Evening Mists (shortlisted,2012). Another person who took the same path of giving up writing legal document to venture into the ever engrossing world of storytelling is Sharmini Flint. She gave up her high flying 'evil past' to be a full time mum. After starting writing children's book, she has ventured into books meant for adults too (I do not mean adult themed!). This is the second book of hers on the Inspector Singh series that I managed to lay my hands on, the first being 'A most peculiar Malaysian murder'. In the Malaysian series, he was assigned by his superiors in the Singapore Police to see to things right for a Singaporean model accus...
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