A YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los AngelesтАЩs Chinatown, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl.
тАЬA captivating and crackling noir full of suspenseful twists. Readers will fall in love with the Chow sisters and their quest for the truth.тАЭ тАФKathleen Glasgow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and The Agathas
LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sistersтАФMay, Gemma, and PeonyтАФLuluтАЩs former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know itтАЩs Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed.
The sisters suspect LuluтАЩs death is the result of foul play, but the police donтАЩt seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that point to a cover-up, and powerful forces in the city want to frame the killing as evidence that Chinatown is a den of iniquity and crime, even more reason it should be demolished to make room for the construction of a new railway depot, Union Station.
Worried that neither the police nor the papers will treat Lulu fairlyтАФno matter her fame and wealthтАФthe sisters set out to solve their friendтАЩs murder themselves, and maybe save their neighborhood in the bargain. But with LuluтАЩs killer still on the loose, the girlsтАЩ investigation just might put them square in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded murderer.