The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh-Used Gail Anderson-Dargatz LAPD detective Renée Ballard and

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family

loss and betrayal

When her mother remarried

But with two difficult families

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh-Used Gail Anderson-Dargatz LAPD detective Renée Ballard andEveryone in Orange Countys Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor Oanh who dared to leave her marriage for true loveso a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons.Oanhs current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. Shes divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade