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A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel
by S. J. Rozan
American-Born Chinese PI Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case.
Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants American-Born Chinese PI Lydia Chin to track down a rumor. Contemporary Chinese painting is sizzling hot on the art scene and no one is hotter than Chau Chun, known as the Ghost Hero. A talented and celebrated ink painter, Chau's highly-prized work mixes classical forms and modern political commentary. The rumor of new paintings by Chau is shaking up the art world. There's only one problem - Ghost Hero Chau has been dead for twenty years, killed in the 1989 Tianamen Square uprising.
But not only is Ghost Hero Chau long dead, but Lydia's client isn't who he claims to be either. And she's not the only PI hired to look for these paintings. Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, soon learn that someone else – Jack Lee: PI, art expert, and, like Lydia, American Born Chinese – is also on the case. What starts as rumors over new paintings by a dead artist quickly becomes something far more desperate - a high-stakes crisis the PI's will find themselves risking everything to resolve.
"Starred Review. Engaging characters, crisp dialogue, intelligent storytelling, and a minimum of violence add up to another winner for Rozan." - Publishers Weekly
"This isn't the most suspenseful entry in the series, and the villains seem a bit over the top, but the chemistry between Rozan's lead characters - self-deprecating Chin and the unflappable Smith, whose woeful impressions will make readers cringe - makes it all work." - Booklist
"Pleasantly foolish, insubstantial and harmless..." - Kirkus Reviews
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SJ Rozan is the author of twenty novels and over eighty short stories, and editor of three anthologies. She has won multiple awards, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, Macavity; Japanese Maltese Falcon; and the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. She's served on the national boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and as president of Private Eye Writers of America. SJ has taught at such diverse places as the Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy; Singapore Management University in Singapore; the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida; and the Novel-in-Progress Bookcamp in Wisconsin. She was born in the Bronx and lives in Manhattan. SJ has served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and is ex-...
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