The novel conducts a perfect blitz down the center to a touchdown, helped by a strong zigzagging strategy. It's not a blowout, regretfully. Injuries are many and the field is littered with defeated players from both teams.Private detective Bill Smith dominates the defense in this outing, shuttin...
Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's ...
It flows through the Bronx like a river between banks of faded elegance. And at the end of the avenue called the Grand Concourse is the place people go to die, the Bronx Home for the Aged. The only trouble is the people dying there are going before their time. Bill Smith has been hired by an ol...
Like many mystery/detective novels China Trade reads easily and quickly. Weighing in at just over 260 pages, it is short enough to read in a sitting or two, but long enough to develop its characters and plot while holding the reader’s attention. As first novels go, it is a very good one.Because i...
Three years ago, a child’s death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattan’s lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter, and from the city he once knew so wel...
Bill Smith is going undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story Manhattan site of Crowell Construction’s latest project.His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he checks out the foreman who’s under suspicion. A crane operator has d...
This book is very different structurally and thematically from most of Rozan's novels. Not part of the Chin/Smith series.The story revolves around the lives of seven friends — three girls and four boys — who grew up together in the community of Pleasant Hills (think Pleasantville as in the movie)...
With The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan returns to her award-winning, critically acclaimed, and much-loved characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith in the first new novel in the series in seven years. Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Bill Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Lydia Chin is b...
On my first birthday my parents moved me out of their bedroom into this one, a room of my own. Andrew and Tim, who had shared this room until then, got piled in with Ted and Elliot across the hall. My brothers were always jealous of my space; I was jealous of their illicit late-night laughter, th...
I smoked some more cigarettes, paced up and down the halls. I played over the Schubert sonata in my head, felt my fingers twitch at the difficult passages. I stood at the front door, where the cool air carried the scent of autumn: dry leaves mixed with the perfume of the last roses. Beyond the wa...