Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/Thriller. Winner of the California Book Awards. Gold Medal for Fiction. Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Shortlisted for the Macavity Awards, Best Mystery Novel. Shortlisted for the Anthony Awards, Best NovelFinalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award.

Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to life on the outside after years spent in prison.

But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever. 

'Masterful.' Ruth Ware

'A searing examination of racial and family politics that is also an immaculately constructed whodunit.' Daily Telegraph, Summer Reads

'Writing a page-turner about racial politics in the U.S. is a delicate enterprise fraught with pitfalls, but Cha manages it superbly in this thought-provoking family saga.' Daily Mail, Summer Reads