{"product_id":"book-jwps","title":"Those Opulent Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eJacquie Pham’s transportive debut, \u003ci\u003eThose Opulent Days\u003c\/i\u003e, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Guest List\u003c\/i\u003e with the historical vitality of Vanessa Chan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Storm We Made\u003c\/i\u003e, and the upstairs-downstairs drama of \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonize. And one will die.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDuy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families’ formidable businesses, they make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUntil one of them is murdered.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won’t survive the night. Toggling between this fatal night and the six days leading up to it, told from the perspectives of the four men, their mothers, their servants, and their lovers, an intricate web of terror, loyalty, and well-kept secrets begins to unravel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose Opulent Days\u003c\/i\u003e is at once both a historical novel of vivid intensity and a classically structured, pitch-perfect murder mystery featuring a robust cast of characters you won’t soon forget.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49278444011824,"sku":"BDjwps","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/656571-jwps-Square.jpg?v=1732407758","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-jwps","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}