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INSPECTOR SAMUEL TAY is a senior inspector in the elite Special Investigation Section of Singapore CID – a homicide detective who’s the best investigator the Singapore police have. Tay’s mother was Singaporean Chinese and his father American-born Chinese, and it was from him Tay inherited a strong streak of American individualism that has made him an outsider in a relentlessly regulated and tightly wound Singapore. He’s like sandpaper to his superiors while focused as a laser on the crime at hand. His intuition, his often-questionable willingness to take chances, and his mixed-race lineage is what makes him who he is: a damn good detective and a royal pain in the ass.

He’s a little overweight, a little lonely,  very cranky, enjoys his own company more than others. Smokes way too much. Awkward when it comes to women.

He does not own a car. He is not an early riser and he welcomes his days warily, already resigned to the frustrations and disappointments he knows the day will surely bring.

He often wonders why he doesn’t retire. He doesn’t really have to work – having inherited a fortune in real estate in the US from his estranged dead mother.

At times, he finds his mother’s ghost sitting on the edge of his bed giving cryptic advice about his current case. And at times, he takes it.