A kaleidoscopic literary mystery from the bestselling author of Good Talk: when a famous actress is murdered, the search for her killer is on - but who is really to blame?

For more than decade, Indian American actress Anji Alexander was one of the biggest, most bankable stars in Hollywood, though also one of the most troubled. Renowned for her beauty and ability to transform into unforgettable characters, she had recently taken greater charge of her career, but now she's been found strangled to death in her former hometown of Granite Falls, New York. How did it come to this?

Told from the perspectives of the people whose lives she touched - the manager she was fighting with, the sister she leaned too hard on, the professor who despised everything she stood for, the daughter who never knew her - a portrait of the real Anji emerges, along with the life she tried to create in modern America. What did it mean to achieve her level of spectacular success? To serve as a racial symbol for a country that brags about its diversity far better than it protects it?

At once a brilliant, propulsive literary novel, a scathing takedown of the false promises of the immigrant dream, and a page-turning mystery, We Killed Anji Alexander reveals the actress's killer in its final chapters - but the troubled world it exposes will leave us wondering if maybe, just maybe, it was all of us.