As a mystery novel, “Those Opulent Days” is well-plotted ... And by linking it to a faded period of history, presaging the United States’ own tragedy in the Vietnam War, she establishes ...
While he dove into the history ... and humbling." A book event at the Village School drew about 65 people, and Woolworth has appeared on podcasts appealing to culinary and mystery fans; he even ...
It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel ...