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Title: A Bitter Feast by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0-312-97011-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: ehhhhhh
Comment: Not an aaaahhhhhhh! Not an uuuuhhhhhhhh! Sort of a ehhhhhhhhh!
A complicated plot that barely kept my interest in a story peopled by characters that I barely cared about.
Lydia was too terminally perky for me, and Bill too forbearing as he graciously accepted an unending stream of rebuffs from her.
I should'a just passed this one by.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Rozan's best novel to date.
Comment: I have read Rozan's first five novels and they are all very good but this is clearly her best yet. This book has it all: a complex, realistic plot that keeps you guessing until the end, interesting, well-developed characters, great dialogue and a very exciting conclusion. Bill and Lydia are more interesting and entertaining than ever. The thing that impresses me most about this book, however, is simply how well it is written. Rozan's writing is clean and precise and her discriptions of Chinatown are so good I almost felt like I was there. Rozan is now my favorite mystery writer and I hope she writes many, many more.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sumptuously Hard-Boiled
Comment: With this sumptuously hard-boiled fifth installment in her acclaimed Lydia Chin-Bill Smith series -- which gracefully alternates between the voice of Lydia, a gutsy PI born and raised in New York's Chinatown, and her off-again, on-again partner, Bill -- Shamus-winning Rozan will no doubt regale her fans.
Hired to find four waiters who've gone missing from the Dragon Garden, a busy dim sum establishment owned by a local Cantonese power player, Lydia gets herself a job as a waitress and goes to work on the joint, all the while offering insight into how the community power structure has been transformed as Fukienese-speaking immigrants have superseded the older Cantonese.
And soon enough Lydia and Bill uncover a mystery -- involving drug-smuggling, alien-smuggling and dissident-smuggling -- that brings that ethnic conflict into sharp focus. All in all, a beautiful and gripping novel, brimming with spice, complexity and suspense. (And food -- enormous, mouth-watering quantities of it.) --APBnews.com
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Title: Reflecting the Sky by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0312981341 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Stone Quarry by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0312977034 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Mandarin Plaid by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0312962835 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Concourse : A Bill Smith-Lydia Chin Mystery by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0312959443 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: China Trade by S. J. Rozan ISBN: 0312955901 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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