{"product_id":"hong-kong-widow","title":"Hong Kong Widow","description":"\u003cb\u003eHong Kong, 1953: In a remote mansion, witnesses insist a massacre took place. The police see nothing but pristine rooms and declare it a collective hallucination. Until decades later, when one witness returns...from the Edgar(R)-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Russian Doll\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 in one of the city's most notorious haunted houses, pitting six spirit mediums against one another in a series of six séances over six nights, until a single winner emerges--she has every reason to refuse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcept 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is promised the winner will receive a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades 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 \u003ci\u003edid\u003c\/i\u003e. She must uncover the truth about the last night she ever spent in that house--even if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there. . . .","brand":"Berkley Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618694398245,"sku":"9780593548011","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/5088\/4901\/files\/imageloader_1132e871-35f6-4474-ad35-440243c448df.jpg?v=1763722730","url":"https:\/\/thebooklounge.com\/products\/hong-kong-widow","provider":"The Book Lounge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}