How refreshing to have a murder mystery set in 1920s’ Vietnam – and one by a Vietnamese-Australian adult fiction writer.
Jacquie Pham has set her debut thriller in 1928 amongst a group of young men running their families’ formidable businesses. They make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society – until one of them is murdered.
As the story creeps closer to the murder, and as each character becomes a suspect, the true villain begins to emerge: colonialism, the French occupation of Vietnam, and the massive economic differences that catapult the wealthy into the stratosphere while the poor starve on the streets.
Generously, Ultimo Press is offering 20 copies to Sisters in Crime members for the February Crime Stack.
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Echo Publishing is kindly sending copies of Natalie Conyer’s Present Tense to the following December-January winners: Sonya Bates (SA); Jane Cafarella (VIC); Donna Cameron (NSW); Caroline de Costa (VIC); Alison Ferguson (NSW); Janine Healey (TAS); Nette HILTON (QLD); Helmine Kemp (SA); Suzanne Mason (VIC); Jill Mathers (VIC); Meridith Mckinnon (VIC); Angela Meyer (VIC); Janet Nagly (NSW); Michelle Prak (SA); Linda Rust (VIC); Bronwen Scott (QLD); Stacy Smith (NSW); Andrea Vollbrecht (VIC); Vikki Wakefield (SA); and Deb Watson (VIC).