The Hong Kong Widow

Hong Kong,1953: In a remote mansionwitnesses insist a massacre took place. The police see nothing but pristine rooms and declare it a collective hallucination. Until decades laterwhen one witness returnsΓǪfrom the Edgar┬«-nominated author of The Last Russian Doll. In 1950s Hong KongMei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a shocking invitationΓÇöto take part in a competition in one of the city’s most notorious haunted housespitting six spirit mediums against one another in a series of six s├⌐ances over six nightsuntil a single winner emergesΓÇöshe has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostessa former Shanghainese silent film staris none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed MeiΓÇÖs entire life. It is promised the winner will receive a fortunebut there is only one prize Mei wants: revenge. Decades laterthe final night of that competition has become an infamous urban legend: The police were called to the scene of a brutal massacre but found no evidencedismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei knows what she sawbut now someone else is convinced they know what she did. She must uncover the truth about the last night she ever spent in that houseΓÇöeven if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there. . . .