Amy Chua

An epic, devastating, majestic mystery. Clever, richly imagined and outright thrilling — Chris Whitaker Berkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms at the opulent Claremont Hotel. A rich industrialist, Walter Wilkinson, could have been targeted by any number of adversaries. But Detective Al Sullivan's investigation brings up the spectre of another tragedy at...

A sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. Berkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms at the opulent Claremont Hotel. A rich industrialist, Walter Wilkinson could have been...

A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: the most talked-about book of the year ‘Blissfully funny’ India Knight, Sunday Times 'Entertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking' New York Times ‘A treat from first to last: ruefully funny, endlessly self-deprecating, riven with ironies... I relished this memoir’ I Updated with a new postscript by Amy Chua and a letter from...