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Those Opulent Days

by Pham, Jacquie

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2025 — Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction — Shortlisted

Four lifelong friends. A world of extraordinary privilege. One murder that will expose their darkest secrets.

Set against the glamour and inequality of 1928 French-colonial Vietnam, Those Opulent Days is a captivating historical mystery from debut novelist Jacquie Pham. 

Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have shared an unbreakable friendship since childhood. Now heirs to powerful families, they enjoy lives filled with wealth, indulgence, and influence. But when the four gather at a luxurious mansion in Dalat, their carefully constructed world begins to unravel—and one of them will not survive the night. 

Moving between the fateful gathering and the days preceding it, the story reveals hidden resentments, dangerous loyalties, and long-buried secrets through the perspectives of friends, lovers, families, and servants. 

Rich in atmosphere and psychological tension, this compelling novel explores friendship, betrayal, colonial power, and the devastating inequalities beneath a glittering society.

“A heady, character-driven historical novel embedded with a mystery.” — Kirkus Reviews 

“Those Opulent Days is a rewarding story, written with elegance and a sharp eye toward the racial and social dynamics of 1920s colonial Vietnam.” — Peggy Kurkowski, Historical Novel Society 

“1920s Vietnam is lushly and lovingly described, and its characters vividly realized.” — Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times
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