When We Were Orphans

England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London Society. Yet one unsolved Crime, Mystery & Thriller has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war london and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.