The Hong Kong WidowThe Hong Kong Widow

"A woman returns to the house that's haunted her across the twentieth century in this gripping gothic mystery from the Edgar-nominated author of The Last Russian Doll. In 1950s Hong Kong, Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a shocking invitation--to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another, in a series of six séances, over six nights, until a single winner emerges, in one of Hong Kong's most notoriously haunted houses--she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess, a former Shanghainese silent film star, is none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed Mei's entire life. The winner is promised a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: Revenge. Decades later, the 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 evidence, dismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei knows what she saw, but now someone else is convinced they know what she did. Mei must uncover the truth about that fateful night in that cursed house at last--even if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there."-- Provided by publisher.