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Learn moreAsian-American private investigator Lydia Chin knows New York City’s Chinatown, its people, and its ways as no outsider ever could. It’s a city within a city, a rich melange of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families—a world all its own. And in all of Chinatown, there is no one like Lydia, who has a nose for trouble, a disapproving Chinese mother, and a partner named Bill Smith who’s been living above a bar for sixteen years. Hired to find some precious stolen porcelain, Lydia follows a trail of clues from highbrow art dealers into a world of Chinese gangs. Suddenly, this case has become as complex as her community itself—and as deadly as a killer on the loose.
S. J. Rozan has won multiple awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity, the Japanese Maltese Falcon, and the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. S. J. was born and raised in the Bronx and now lives in lower Manhattan.
Christine Marshall is an actress, director, and designer who makes her home in Maine. She has performed in theaters as far flung as San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Detroit, in roles ranging from Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire to Nancy Spungeon in A Sid and Nancy X-Mas. She is a member of the Mad Horse Theatre Company and the Maine State Ballet, works on many independent Maine theater projects and films, and appears regularly on local commercial television. As a narrator, she recently won her first Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine for her work on Dancer. As a child, she watched her mother record audiobooks and is proud to follow her in this work. She lives with her husband Michael.
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“Rozan shows a knack for characterizing Chinatown’s denizens, apothecaries, shops, and food.”
“Rozan’s Chinatown setting has the ring of authenticity, and Lydia is a true original. A very promising start to what shapes up as a top-flight series.”
“Lydia’s implacable Chinese mother is alone worth the price of admission.”
“Rozan’s fast-moving first novel presents her Asian-American cast and their world with a delicacy that goes far beyond local color.”
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