Shadow Play is the first in a series set in rural Malaysia during the 1970s. At the center of the series is Mak Cik Maryam, one of the middle-aged "aunties" who sell batiks in the local market. Here, she will solve a murder related to the world of ...
Jamillah has not been herself of late. A market-trader, and one of the well respected village “aunties,” she is clearly in need of main puteri, a traditional Malaysian form of exorcism....