Reflecting the Sky
St. Martin’s 2001
ISBN 0-312-98134-1
Christina says:
Lydia Chin, a Chinese American private investigator from New York, is
asked by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected men in Chinatown and an old
friend of her father's, to bring the urn of his friend and a jade pendant for
his grandson to Hong Kong. Her partner Bill Smith is supposed to accompany her.
The apparently simple mission gets complicated when the seven-year-old boy is
kidnapped shortly after their arrival and they receive two different ransom
notes at once. The family doesn't want Lydia and Bill to interfere, but before
they know what's happening they are deeply involved in a highly explosive case.
The seventh book in the series is set in a place where not Lydia but Bill
is the outlander immediately standing out in a crowd. Rozan brings Hong Kong to
life in the same way she brings New York to life in her other books. The reader
immerses himself in the frantic big city full of life, trying to find his way
alongside Lydia and Bill. Rozan doesn't make the mistake to forget that despite
her origin Lydia is only a tourist in this city and gives her police detective
Mark Quan as a sidekick, which causes sizzling situations with her old partner
Bill. Even though this book is narrated from Lydia’s point of view, a few
interesting details from Bill's past come to light.
The case the two partners have to solve is as complex as one can hope
for. Their opponent made me shudder more than once.
S. J. Rozan and her investigators wandering between the two worlds are
among the best crime fiction has to offer.
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