nOvidia Yu is a Singapore-based novelist and award-winning short story writer and playwright with over thirty plays staged by theatres in Singapore as well as Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, Edinburgh and San Francisco. Ovidia has received several awards and attended the University of Iowas International Writing Programme. Her latest novel, Meddling and Murder, features best-loved amateur sleuth and restaurant proprietor Aunty Lee, who appeared in her previous Aunty Lees Delights series. Ovidia has also written a new historical series, The Crown Colony Murders, which will be published by Constable and Robinson in summer 2017.n