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A Study in Sherlock
Award-winning author S.J. Rozan
Ghost Hero won the 2012 Dilys Award from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. See what they have planned to celebrate their 20th Anniversary of the Dilys, and Ghost Hero.
| Oprah Winfrey's website, Oprah.com, lists "9 Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read" — and includes The Shanghai Moon! Read more here. |
ABC News Review: Rozan's 'Ghost Hero' Laced With Humor — "reminiscent of the 1973 Paul Newman-Robert Redford classic, 'The Sting.' "
Ghost Hero was named on the NPR and Sun-Sentinel Best of the Year Lists, and Bruce da Silva of the AP's Top Fifteen List.
American-Born Chinese PI 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.
But not only is Ghost Hero Chau long dead, 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…
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See what Maureen Corrigan from NPR has to say about Ghost Hero.
"Rozan delivers another thoroughly entertaining, meticulously plotted and utterly riveting installment of her Lydia chin/Bill Smith series." 4 ½ stars TOP PICK from Romantic Times
Publishers Weekly gave Ghost Hero a starred review: "Engaging characters, crisp dialogue, intelligent storytelling, and a minimum of violence add up to another winner for Rozan."
Bread dough rats
Chinatown, NYC: New Year’s Flower Market. This was the Year of the Rat. These are bread dough rats, to bring good luck.
Unalaska: SJ photographs fish
Unalaska (Aleutian Islands), Alaska: The bridge I’m standing on connects the two islands that make up the town, and is called — no matter where you are — The Bridge to the Other Side.
Tokyo: SJ Rozan with friend
I snuck behind the chain at an exhibit at a TV station tower and my Japanese traveling buddy, though horrified by my bad behavior, snapped this.
Alaska
Nine a.m., but barely dawn. Oct. 2009. I was in Unalaska, in the center of the Aleutian chain, to teach some writing workshops in the schools.
New York City, Pt. 2
My neighborhood, early one morning, spring 2011. Never know what you’ll find on an early morning walk. I got the feeling this plant was checking to see if it was safe to sneak around the corner.
Hong Kong
About as Hong Kong as you can get. 2011. Multitudes of cranes, no clue yet about the building going up. This site is near the Star ferry terminal on the Hong Kong side.
Chinatown
New Year’s Flower Market in The Year of the Pig. Pineapples are for good luck. Taken in January of 2008.
ACA
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL. Where I live the manholes don’t get covered in sand.
Assisi again
I teach fiction writing at the Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy, every summer. The stones in Assisi, whether on walls or streets, are irresistible.
Assisi
Assisi is full of beautiful sights. I loved the shadows on the wall and the bright color of the flowers that I spotted on an early morning walk.
New York City
Xmas in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 2009. I walk around New York a lot, and Red Hook is one of my favorite walks. I go there once a month to a reading series at Sunny’s Bar, for you Brooklynites. An industrial neighborhood, but someone decorated the trees.
