Murder Among Friends
(2026)(The fifth book in the Death in Shanghai series)
A novel by Garrett Hutson
A body in the kitchen, and no alibi...
1939: The lights of Shanghai still burn bright, but the darkness encircles them--and Douglas Bainbridge finds himself ensnared.
Doug and his friends can feel their world slipping away. The glitz of Shanghai's International Settlement now feels more than a little gilded, with rising violence, rampant shortages and inflation, and the tightening grip of the Japanese occupation surrounding the "lonely island."
The changes strike close to home when Doug's wife Lucy begins acting strangely. The change baffles him until he learns of a sinister alliance between local crime lords and the Japanese occupation authority that have brought half of Shanghai under their numbed trance...
Doug teams up again with intrepid reporter Art "Jonesy" Jones to get to the bottom of the unholy alliance that is slowly strangling the international community in Shanghai. But when he awakens to the sounds of a midnight burglary only to find a naked corpse in his kitchen--and every reason for the police to believe he strangled the young man--he knows the gangs are closing in.
Can he save Lucy from their clutches before they silence him forever?
Genre: Historical Mystery
1939: The lights of Shanghai still burn bright, but the darkness encircles them--and Douglas Bainbridge finds himself ensnared.
Doug and his friends can feel their world slipping away. The glitz of Shanghai's International Settlement now feels more than a little gilded, with rising violence, rampant shortages and inflation, and the tightening grip of the Japanese occupation surrounding the "lonely island."
The changes strike close to home when Doug's wife Lucy begins acting strangely. The change baffles him until he learns of a sinister alliance between local crime lords and the Japanese occupation authority that have brought half of Shanghai under their numbed trance...
Doug teams up again with intrepid reporter Art "Jonesy" Jones to get to the bottom of the unholy alliance that is slowly strangling the international community in Shanghai. But when he awakens to the sounds of a midnight burglary only to find a naked corpse in his kitchen--and every reason for the police to believe he strangled the young man--he knows the gangs are closing in.
Can he save Lucy from their clutches before they silence him forever?
Genre: Historical Mystery