Two dead bodies lead an NYPD detective all the way to Seattle's Chinatown, in this "gripping police procedural full of surprising twists" (The Kansas City Star).
The corpses of a young man and woman are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, the historic Tong battleground in New York's Chinatown. Is it a simple murder-suicide? The grieving families want Detective Jack Yu to keep a lid on any stories that might further tarnish their family names—but the Golden Galaxy karaoke bar, where the young woman worked, is made for scandal, a hotbed of drugs, snakeheads, and smuggled prostitutes.
As puzzling links between the murders and the criminal underworld emerge, Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one's in Seattle. In the new city, stymied by the uncooperative local cops, he needs answers from a cold-blooded gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale . . .
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July 1, 2018 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781569478608
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- ISBN: 9781569478608
- File size: 265 KB
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- English
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September 6, 2010
What started as a promising series has devolved into something just run-of-the-mill, as shown by Chang's third procedural featuring NYPD detective Jack Yu (after 2008's Year of the Dog). A murder-suicide in Chinatown of a Chinese-American couple leads Yu's former commander to call him in as a public relations gesture to an influential citizens' group. The case proves to be open and shut, and the book primarily deals with the detective's efforts to tie up loose ends from the murder of Uncle Four, a gang leader, by tracing the whereabouts of Four's mistress, Mona. When the trail points to Seattle, where, coincidentally, Yu's love-interest, lawyer Alexandra Lee-Chow, is set to receive an award, he travels there on his own dime. The plot contrivances don't end there. Unlike, say, Ed Lin (Snakes Can't Run), Chang fails to make Chinatown engaging or his lead someone readers will want to spend more time with.
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