Ghost Hero

A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel

Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels (Volume 11 of 11)

S. J. Rozan

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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, but 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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S. J. Rozan

S.J. ROZAN is author of many critically acclaimed novels which have won most of crime fiction's greatest honors, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero awards.  Born and raised in the Bronx, Rozan now lives in lower Manhattan.  

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Ghost Hero
A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel
Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels (Volume 11 of 11)
S. J. Rozan

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
September 2011
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ISBN: 9780312544508
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