The Hong Kong Widow Jacques Poulin Archipelago Books FBA Paperback 2021 shadowy figure

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In museums across Paris something strange is happening

Franck - driven by the need to bring them clarity but also by the painful memories of all the unsolved murder cases from when he was still on active duty - buries himself in witness statements and reports up to the point of exhaustion

unaware of the town's dark history

You can run from your secrets

The Hong Kong Widow Jacques Poulin Archipelago Books FBA Paperback 2021 shadowy figureHong Kong, 1953. Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution scraping out a living as a traditional paper cutting artist. But paper art is not her only gift; she also has the ability to speak to ghosts, an ability that she has striven to bury. When she receives an invitation to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess is none other than the wife of