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Title details for Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan - Available

Ghost Hero

#11 in series

by S. J. Rozan
Emily Woo Zeller
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American-Born Chinese P.I. Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her 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. 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 P.I. hired to look for these paintings. Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, soon learn that someone else—Jack Lee: P.I., 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 P.I.'s will find themselves risking everything to resolve.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bill Smith / Lydia Chin

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    November 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792780854
      • File size: 258038 KB
      • Duration: 08:57:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Lydia Chin is a P.I. working out of New York's Chinatown--to the despair of her mother, who expected all her children to be doctors. In this caper, Lydia and her round-eye partner, Bill, are on the trail of some alleged new artworks by a painter known to have died at Tiananmen Square. As always, Rozan's mise-en-scÅne is terrific, her characters are smart and funny, and the plot cracks along. Emily Woo Zeller performs well except that she has made a weird choice to speak Lydia and other young women in her normal chest voice and pitch the male characters higher, where she has no room to maneuver. Bill's voice is especially jarring. Still, there's a great deal of fun to be had here. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 1, 2011
      At the start of Edgar-winner Rozan's excellent 11th novel featuring PI partners Lydia Chin and Bill Smith (after On the Line), Jeff Dunbar, a collector of contemporary Chinese art, hires Lydia to get to the bottom of beguiling rumors that new works by the late Chau Chun (aka Ghost Hero Chau) have somehow surfaced. Chau, who died 20 years earlier during the Tiananmen Square uprising, used traditional symbols and techniques to conceal subversive political messages in brush-and-ink scrolls. The likeliest explanation for the scuttlebutt is that someone has been forging his work. Bill hooks Lydia up with a friend and colleague, Jack Lee, who reveals that he's gotten the identical assignment from a different client, NYU professor Bernard Yang. With doubts growing as to Dunbar's real agenda, Lydia and Bill start fishing to find out what's really going on. Engaging characters, crisp dialogue, intelligent storytelling, and a minimum of violence add up to another winner for Rozan.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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