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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...