Ian Hamilton, Author Faber & Faber $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-571-19843-6
Hamilton here selects the lives of 12 literary giants through which to explore the question of what happens to an author's work and reputation after death. Although many writers leave instructions regarding posthumous publication and designate...
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Ian Hamilton, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-394-53468-8
This embattled biography has been revised because of the legal suit Salinger instituted to stop publication, and the most valuable part of the book is Hamilton's proud and indignant exposition of those long proceedings, torturous to him and...
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Ian Hamilton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (326p) ISBN 978-0-06-016231-3
Hamilton (In Search of J. D. Salinger ) fails largely in his purpose to equate the work of often overlooked film scripters to the contributions of famous directors. The book opens with promise, telling about writers hired to subtitle early silents...
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $24.95 trade paper (408p) ISBN 978-1-77089-956-8
Hamilton’s tense 10th Ava Lee novel (after The Princeling of Nanjing) has his heroine trying to establish herself in the legitimate world of high fashion after retiring from her not-so-legitimate debt-collecting business. She quickly realizes those...
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Ian Hamilton, Author, James Broll, Editor Addison Wesley Publishing Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-48397-0
Collecting the obscurely titled critical writings he produced over 25 years was apparently less a literary decision for Hamilton (Robert Lowell: A Biography) than a commercial one. To amass enough pages required supplementing the incisive essays on...
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Ian Hamilton. Picador, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-03193-8
Hamilton’s fast-paced first novel introduces tough Toronto forensic accountant Ava Lee, who receives a new assignment from her partner, “Uncle” Chow Tung, for the Philippines’ richest man, Tommy Ordonez. As she begins investigating a real estate...
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Ian Hamilton. Picador, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03229-4
An intelligent kick-ass heroine anchors Canadian author Hamilton’s excellent third novel featuring forensic accountant Ava Lee (after 2012’s The Disciple of Las Vegas). Uncle, her business partner for more than a decade, summons Ava, a Canadian of...
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Ian Hamilton. Picador, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-03231-7
In Hamilton’s subpar fourth Ava Lee novel (after 2013’s The Wild Beasts of Wuhan), Ava’s eldest half-brother, Michael, who lives in Hong Kong, and his business partner, Simon To, have sunk a mostly borrowed $20 million into a Macau shopping center...
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Ian Hamilton. Picador, $16 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-03227-0
American fans of Ava Lee, a Toronto-based forensic accountant who specializes in finding and recovering missing money, will welcome Hamilton’s first in the series, whose publication in the U.S. follows that of the fourth entry, 2013’s The Red Pole...
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline/House of Anansi (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; HarperCollins Canada, Canadian dist.), $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-77089-246-0
The brilliant, sexy, and formidably martial arts-trained forensic accountant Ava Lee is back in her seventh adventure (after The Two Sisters of Borneo). Ava’s mentor and long-time partner (and retired Asian Triad chairman), Uncle, has died of cancer,
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Ian Hamilton. House of Anansi (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0160-5
Hamilton’s eighth novel (after 2014’s The King of Shanghai) in his series featuring Ava Lee, a Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant and a major investor in the PÖ fashion line, requires patience from readers. The book’s slow, lengthy start is filled
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.) , $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0274-9
The tense 11th book in Hamilton’s Ava Lee series is one of his best. (The Water Rat of Wanchai won an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.) The action begins when Ava receives a call from Manila businessman Chang Wang, an old friend of her late...
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline, $15.95 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0386-9
Fans of Canadian author Hamilton will welcome this series launch featuring Uncle Chow Tung, a beloved supporting character in the author’s popular Ava Lee series (The Imam of Tawi-Tawi, etc.). A harrowing prologue set in 1959 chronicles how 25-year-o
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline, $15.95 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0203-9
Arthur Ellis Award–winner Hamilton, in his solid 12th novel featuring diminutive but deadly Ava Lee (after The Goddess Yantai), centers the story on a gang war in Hong Kong, where once dominant Sammy Wing and his vicious nephew, Carter Wing, are...
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0402-6
It’s 1995 in Hamilton’s tense third crime novel featuring Uncle Chow Tung (after 2020’s Foresight), and in two years Britain will be handing over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. Rival triad gangs, nervous about China’s intentions, get...
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Ian Hamilton. House of Anansi, $17.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0708-9
This glacially paced novel with minor mystery subplots from Hamilton (the Ava Lee series) focuses on Jack Anderson, the head of a successful Massachusetts insurance company. On Thanksgiving 1989, Jack reveals to his family that he has lied about his
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4870-1015-7
When a fire destroys a lumber warehouse belonging to Ava Lee’s company in Kuching, in Sarawak, Malaysia, in Hamilton’s exciting 14th novel featuring the forensic accountant turned businesswoman (after 2020’s The Diamond Queen of Singapore), Ava’s...
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Ian Hamilton. Spiderline, $16.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4870-1018-8
Set in 2015, Hamilton’s bittersweet fourth and final outing for Uncle Chow Tung (after 2021’s Fortune) opens with Uncle, the former leader of Hong Kong’s Fanling Triad, learning that he has inoperable stomach cancer. Despite this grim diagnosis,...
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