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There's a series I love that has three books out and Berkley isn't resigning (I'm guessing the initial deal was for three books). The author is going to self-publish a fourth book to wrap up the loose ends.

What's frustrating is that no one was writing with the setting she was using (Singapore in the late 1800s). Though some characters are British, there were also characters from Malaysia, China, India, etc. It was really interesting. It was also an honest look at how the British operated there. [/quote]

I would love to know what this series is- please share![/quote]

The first book is called Singapore Sapphire. The main character used be a nurse in India with her doctor husband and their son, but the husband and son died (maybe of typhoid?). She went back to England and got involved in the suffrage movement. She was one of the women jailed and force fed in the notorious Holloway Prison. After she gets out, she heads to Singapore to live with her brother. She doesn't really talk about the suffrage movement until the second book. In the first, she's working as a secretary for a man who is murdered.

I admit that I didn't know much about Singapore and Malaysia or the role of the British there before reading, but the books made me do some more reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43704093-singapore-sapphire
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