China Trade
It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families; it's a world all its own. And in all of New York's Chinatown, there is no one like P.I. Lydia Chin, who has a nose for trouble, a disapproving Chinese mother, and a partner named Bill Smith who's been living above...
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It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families; it's a world all its own. And in all of New York's Chinatown, there is no one like P.I. Lydia Chin, 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...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780312955908 (0312955901)
Publish date: 1995-09-30
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
Series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith (#1)
I really enjoyed this one. For one, after reading a slew of private investigator fic from Chandler's Marlowe to McDonald's McGee to Parker's Spenser, I was incredibly grateful for what Rozan's Lydia Chin was not. Yes, like many among her fictional brethren she has plenty of sass, and yes she can han...
While this novel was a good read, I am looking forward to the next one where there will be less character introductions and more plot. I did enjoy the two detectives friends without benefits relationship.
An enjoyable mystery featuring a young Chinese-American private investigator, Lydia Chin, and her partner, the enigmatic Bill Smith. They're on the trail of some porcelain stolen from a local museum when gangs and dead bodies start to make an already cloudy trail even murkier. My favorite part was t...
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