{"title":"Fiction - World Literature - Oceania","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-shipwreck-in-fiji-9781641295475","title":"A Shipwreck in Fiji","description":"\u003cb\u003eFiji, 1915: when a purported sighting of Germans on the run from WWI turns deadly, Sergeant Akal Singh must (reluctantly) take up the investigation in this vibrant follow-up to \u003ci\u003eA Disappearance in Fiji.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool's errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed European ladies, Mary and Katherine, on a sight-seeing tour. 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