Ed Lin, Author . Kaya $14.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-885-03045-0
Lin (Waylaid) examines the life of a 1976 Chinatown beat cop in his understated second novel. Young officer Robert Chow is unabashedly used by the NYPD to create the illusion of diversity in the force, despite anti-Asian bias from white cops who don&
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Ed Lin, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-56988-4
Set in New York City in 1976, Lin's accomplished second novel to feature NYPD detective Robert Chow (after 2007's This Is a Bust
) finds the Chinese-American cop, who's still haunted by memories of his service in the Vietnam War,...
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Ed Lin. Minotaur, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-66090-1
Tensions in America’s relationship with China and Taiwan form the backdrop for Lin’s compelling third mystery featuring Chinese-American Robert Chow of the NYPD (after 2010’s Snakes Can’t Run). By the fall of 1976, Chow has moved on from being the...
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Ed Lin. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-326-3
For a guy who scoffs at the ghosts revered by so many of his fellow Taiwanese, droll everyman Jing-nan, a night-market food stall manager, ironically finds himself spending much of his time chasing one as he investigates the murder of his childhood...
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Ed Lin. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-733-9
Taiwan’s Autumn Moon Festival—a time for family—provides the backdrop for Lin’s worthy sequel to 2014’s Ghost Month. Jing-nan, owner of Unknown Pleasures, a food stall in Taipei’s Shilin Night Market, has been summoned by his gangster uncle, Big Eye.
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Ed Lin. Soho Crime, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-968-5
At the start of Lin’s stellar third Taipei Night Market novel (after 2016’s Incensed), Jing-nan Chen, who “makes the best skewers and stews in the Shilin Night Market,” receives a distress call from high school classmate Peggy Lee. Peggy’s wealthy...
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Ed Lin. Soho Crime, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64129-327-3
In Lin’s intriguing fourth novel starring Taipei food stall operator Jing-nan (after 2018’s 99 Ways to Die), Siu-lien, the mother of Jing-nan’s girlfriend, buys some cigarettes for her boyfriend, Boxer, and the receipt’s number is drawn in the...
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