SHAMINI FLINT is a Cambridge graduate and was a lawyer with various UK firms, including Linklaters, for ten years, travelling extensively in Asia during that period, before giving up her practice to concentrate on writing. She is the author of the Inspector Singh Investigates series, including" A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder "and "A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul", " "published by Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books.