The Golden Gate

Amy Chua

The compelling debut thriller from the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, set in 1940s California.

As Detective Al Sullivan investigates the assassination of a presidential candidate at the fabled Claremont Hotel, a favourite haunt of the rich and famous, the threads seem to lead back to the 1930 death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford. But the clues are obscured by the turbulent crosswinds of the Second World War, the Japanese American internment and California’s racist legacy.

The prime suspects are the three beautiful Bainbridge heiresses: sisters Nicole and Cassie, and their enigmatic cousin Isabella, sister of Iris. Did one of them have a reason to kill Wilkinson? Caught between an ambitious DA, the cousins’ iron-willed grandmother and his attraction to the fascinating Isabella, Sullivan – born Alejo Gutierrez – has to navigate a landscape in which his own history is a doubleedged sword.

Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and the author of a number of non-fiction books, including A World on Fire and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The Golden Gate is her first novel.

September

Thrillers and Suspense

21 September 2023 • Hardback • £16.99

234x156 • 400pp • 9781838959487

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