The Golden Gate by Amy Chua

Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative,
and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a
California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a
society about to undergo massive change.
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Berkeley Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has
just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a former
presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich
industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter
Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely,
Sullivana's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the
Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a
member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco.
Some say she haunts the Claremont still.
The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three
remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Irisa's sister, Isabella, and her
cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from
the truth - not the powerful influence of Bainbridgesa' grandmother, or the
political aspirations of Berkeleya's district attorney, or the interest of Chinese
first lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in his findings - Sullivan follows his
investigation to its devastating conclusion.
Chuaa's page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent
social forces and groundbreaking forensic advances, when race and class
defined the very essence of power, sex, and justice, and introduces a
fascinating character in Detective Sullivan, a mixed (...)

AMY CHUA is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She
is an internationally bestselling author of several non-fiction titles, including
her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which was a runaway
international bestseller that has been translated into over 30 languages. Chua
graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and cum laude from
Harvard Law School. After practicing on Wall Street for a few years, she joined
the Yale Law School faculty in 2001. The Golden Gate is her fiction debut.

Minotaur
On Sale: Sep 19/23
6.25 x 9.25 • 384 pages
9781250322913 • $24.99 • pb
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical