{"product_id":"those-opulent-days","title":"Those Opulent Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategories--mobile-button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategory-data--data pb-0 mb-0\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil one of them is murdered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose Opulent Days\u003c\/i\u003e is at once both a historical novel of vivid intensity and a pitch-perfect murder mystery with a cast of characters you won’t soon forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHOSE OPULENT DAYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Intricately plotted and full of dark secrets, Jacquie Pham’s \u003ci\u003eThose Opulent Days\u003c\/i\u003e is for lovers of smart and sophisticated crime fiction.’ \u003cb\u003e– Mirandi Riwoe, author of \u003ci\u003eSunbirds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Pham delivers a lush tale weaved with deceit, friendship, and privilege. The opulent language will entice you in, the mystery will keep you there. What a debut!’ \u003cb\u003e– Sharlene Allsop, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘1920s Vietnam is lushly and lovingly described, and its characters vividly realized. Rather than being a mystery, the novel has far more in common with noir: It examines the dark griminess that is part and parcel of the spectrum of humanity.’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e– LA Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacquie Pham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47296931365031,"sku":"9781761154379","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4945\/4503\/files\/ThoseOpulentDays-Pham-2025-9781761154379.jpg?v=1763536555","url":"https:\/\/www.murderousink.com.au\/products\/those-opulent-days","provider":"Murderous Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}