"‘Fast, tough and smart – this is crime fiction to die for’. Tony Parsons
London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A murdered Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown threaten to trigger the race war that the white supremacists of Make England Great Again have been hoping for. They just need a tipping point.
He arrives in the shape of Detective Inspector Stanley Low. Brilliant and bipolar. He hates everyone almost as much as he hates himself. Singapore doesn’t want him, and he doesn’t want to be in London. There are too many bad memories.
Low is plunged into a polarised city, where xenophobia and intolerance feed screaming echo chambers. His desperate race to find a far-right serial killer will lead him to charismatic Neo-Nazi leaders, incendiary radio hosts and Met Police officers who don’t appreciate the foreigner’s interference.
As Low confronts the darkest corners of a racist soul, the Asian detective is the wrong face in the wrong place. But he’s the right copper for the job. London is about to meet the bloody foreigner who won’t walk away.
Perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith, Lee Child and Ian Rannkin.
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Neil Humphreys grew up in Dagenham and went to University in Manchester. He now lives in Singapore, where he writes for various publications and broadcasts on TV and radio. He has published many award-winning children’s books, travelogues and several novels. This is his first book to be published in the UK."
"When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up, and then another, all killed with the same weapon.
With its reputation as a safe, global city in ruins, Singapore struggles to come to grips with its first serial killer in decades.
And when a famous woman disappears, terror takes hold.
In desperation, the authorities turns to the one man they loathe almost as much as the serial killer Detective Inspector Stanley Low. Belligerent and unrepentant, Low's insubordination has been punished with a menial desk job. He's angry and refusing to address his bipolar condition, making him the least qualified detective to head a murder investigation with the world watching. He is also the only man capable of understanding what drives the serial killer.
But Low's mental health deteriorates as he mimics the mind of a madman in search of the sickening truth. He must solve the case quickly to stop a serial killer and save his sanity.
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Neil Humphreys was raised in a Dagenham council house and somehow became one of Asia's best-selling authors. 'Be My Baby' (2008) chronicled his journey to parenthood and was his first international bestseller.
Humphreys then moved into fiction, penning two satirical novels about the Beautiful Game 'Match Fixer' (2010) and 'Premier Leech' (2011). Both critically acclaimed in the UK, and both bestsellers. 'Premier Leech' was selected as the FourFourTwo Football Novel of the Year in the UK. 'Match Fixer' also gave birth to Detective Inspector Stanley Low. The character spawned his own crime thriller series, the international indie bestseller 'Marina Bay Sins' came first, closely followed by 'Rich Kill Poor Kill'. He also writes children's books."
"Detective Inspector Stanley Low is having a really bad day.
His bipolar condition is already ruining another session with his psychiatrist when a sadistic sex murder-suicide at Singapore’s most prestigious hotel plunges him back into a sordid underworld he was desperate to leave behind.
Marina Bay Sands represents Singapore’s attempt to become the Monaco of Asia, a sparkling, physical embodiment of the island’s devotion to economic growth at any cost. A murdered prostitute and a dead expatriate ask questions of a society no-one is particularly keen to answer.
As the case spirals out of control, Inspector Low encounters self-help celebrity couple Yue Liang and Jimmy Chew. She’s a desperate singer willing to do whatever it takes to break the US market. He’s a motivational speaker embroiled in a financial crisis.
Neither of them can get their story straight.
Meanwhile, a South African CEO cannot control his addiction to Asian women, an elusive Indonesian businessman plays pimp for exiled military generals, a government minister is determined to protect foreign ‘talent’ and an imprisoned loan shark pushes Low to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Fuelled by his uncontrollable mania, Inspector Low goes undercover once more and returns to a world that the Asian metropolis refuses to acknowledge; a world of gambling addiction, crime syndicates, international money launderers, immoral celebrities and corrupt politicians, all living in Asia’s cleanest city.
As Inspector Low gets closer to the unpalatable truth, the search for the murderer races to a gripping, horrifying finish.
An intelligent, thought-provoking novel, Marina Bay Sins is Humphreys at his satirical best.
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Neil Humphreys was raised in a Dagenham council house and somehow became one of Asia's best-selling authors. 'Be My Baby' (2008) chronicled his journey to parenthood and was his first international bestseller.
Humphreys then moved into fiction, penning two satirical novels about the Beautiful Game 'Match Fixer' (2010) and 'Premier Leech' (2011). Both critically acclaimed in the UK, and both bestsellers. 'Premier Leech' was selected as the FourFourTwo Football Novel of the Year in the UK. 'Match Fixer' also gave birth to Detective Inspector Stanley Low. The character spawned his own crime thriller series, the international indie bestseller 'Marina Bay Sins' came first, closely followed by 'Rich Kill Poor Kill'. He also writes children's books."
