S. J. Rozan

"In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene. Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam's convinced that since he's been out he's killed two women. He doesn't remember...

The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and--because this is New York City--real estate. Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between Chinatown preservation interests--including Lydia's brother...

The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting...

"Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American P.I. who lives in New York City's Chinatown, is hired for a simple job. She's to deliver the ransom for a set of stolen sketches that comprise the inaugural collection of fashion designer Genna Jing and her new label, Mandarin Plaid. But everything on this simple job goes terribly wrong."--BOOK JACKET. "The ransom is stolen out from under Lydia, her sometimes partner, Bill Smith, is arrested, and just as she is trying...

Receiving a sinister phone call informing him that his sometime partner, Lydia Chin, has been abducted, private investigator Bill Smith is forced to participate in a psychologically brutal cat-and-mouse game during which he is framed for a murder.

The Chinatown museum in New York is robbed of rare porcelain and PI Lydia Chin is hired to recover the loot quietly. The probe takes Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, into the dangerous world of Chinese gangs. A first novel.

PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.

Piano-playing PI Bill Smith teams up with Chinatown's PI Lydia Chin to investigate murder in an old people's home in the Bronx. They uncover racket after racket, from unnecessary medical procedures to the paying of protection money to gangs. By the author of China Trade

Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...

From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors.