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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 isbrought in by colleague and former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades.In Shanghai, excavation has uneartheda cache of European jewelry dating back toWorld War II, when Shanghai was an open cityproviding safe haven forthousands of Jewishrefugees. The jewelry, identifed ashaving belonged to one such refugee - RosalieGilder - was immediately stolen by a Chinese officialwho fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyerspecializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the missing jewels.
About the Author
SJ Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx and is proud of it. She spent over twenty years as an architect in New York City and is kind of proud of that, too. Now she writes and teaches. She's done 10 books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series (the newest, ON THE LINE, comes out Sept. 28, 2010) and two standalones. She's also published three dozen short stories. A collection of her stories, A TALE ABOUT A TIGER, is available, and a second volume is coming.SJ's work has won the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, Nero and Macavity Awards, and she's a recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon. She's served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She's a past President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She's been Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime (El Paso, 2003) , Toastmaster at Bouchercon (Indianapolis, 2009) , an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (2003) and as if that weren't enough, she has the key to the city of Fort Worth, Texas.
