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John Cuneo
reviewed China Trade (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Series #1) on March 05, 2013
China Trade (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Series #1)
This one surprised the heck out of me.
I got it as an e-book, either free or silly cheap based on a recommendation by Laurie R. King. I finally opened it on the plane the other day. I couldn't put it down.
It's a good mystery, nice and twisty, with well-drawn likeable and believable characters. It's well-constructed, with no awkward phrasing or hanging plotlines. But it's more than that. It's a beautifully created world, full of sights and sounds and smells, unfamiliar people and cultural differences. A fantasy world, that just happens to exist, for real, in New York City. I could smell the food, hear the singsong patter of Chinese. I could even see the ghosts, the ancestors drifting in the beam of sunlight by the window, complaining.
I loved Tony Hillerman's Navajo mysteries, though they got redundant and hokey after a while. What I loved was that glimpse into another culture, eyes and hearts and brains so different from my own experience and so fascinatingly human. Rozan builds her world the same way - though I feel with greater skill - and I find myself as fascinated with her Chinatown and its denizens as I was with Hillerman's Navajo Southwest.
And did I mention, also a really good mystery?
A new favorite, for sure. I'll seek out this author's work again.
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