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by Sky Vogel,S. J. Rozan

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Sky Vogel,S. J. Rozan

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978-0792732679

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0792732677

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English

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Blackstone Pub; Unabridged edition (July 1, 2004)

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Fiction

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Bill Smith is going undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story . No Colder Place was my introduction to S. J. Rozan's books (I have subsequently read all of her work), and it's a breathtakingly fine piece of writing.

Bill Smith is going undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story Manhattan site of Crowell Construction's latest project. His bricklaying is a little rusty. This talented, clever, brooding, somewhat lovelorn man is a superb creation.

Lydia Chin & Bill Smith. Bill Smith is going undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story Manhattan site of Crowell Construction's latest project. His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he checks out the foreman who's under suspicion. A crane operator has disappeared-along with some heavy machinery

Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen .

Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. Rozan comes her finest novel to date - an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town. In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary - a kid Bill knows.

Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of. .Rozan is the author of six previous novels featuring Bill Smith and Lydia Chin.

Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. She has won both the Anthony Award for Best Novel and the Shamus Award for Best Novel (the only other woman besides Sue Grafton to win the Shamus), and has been nominated for the Edgar Award. An architect, she was born, raised, and lives in New York City.

The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder .In Pursuit of Spenser.

The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta

I checked out the lights as they came and went in my mirror, detoured out of my way once or twice to see what would happen, but nothing happened. The guy had stayed lost, it seemed.

I checked out the lights as they came and went in my mirror, detoured out of my way once or twice to see what would happen, but nothing happened. Norwood was an old neighborhood of dark-brick apartment buildings, solid and substantial. Mature trees grew on the verges of wide sidewalks, corner stores sold newspapers and milk, and the lit rectangles of apartment-house windows glowed softly. I found Henry Howe’s street and I found his building.

1 Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Series. Rozan's books are set in New York City or start out there. smith· (1997), St. Martin's. Standalone novels/chapters. Writing as Sam Cabot. series features Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, and the books alternate point of view between the two characters. About them she has revealed, "Lydia is me as I was when I was her age. She’s optimistic and full of energy. Bill, on the other hand, is me as I am now-on a bad day. He’s been through enough bad stuff in his life that he knows what can’t be done.

When a Manhattan construction site is plagued by an escalating series of thefts and misfortunes, the contractors hire private eye Bill Smith to investigate. Smith goes undercover as a bricklayer to try to uncover the person behind the job-site trouble. With his sometimes partner, PI Lydia Chin, the two find themselves on a much more serious case of fraud and murder that could reach through the layers of corruption and into the very depths of the underworld.

Xtintisha

This is the first of the series I've read, and I won't be reading another. All of the ingredients are there for a book I thought I'd like: the New York setting, the two detectives male and female and an interesting ethnic mix, the author's obvious knowledge of architecture and the building trades. But it does not jell.

Mysteries are genre fiction, so the trick is to flesh out the formula in an imaginative way. For my money, Rozan can't do it. Her two detectives are like cardboard cutouts. The supporting cast is a group of one-dimensional ethnic stereotypes. The narrative just clanks along--our hero gets up, goes to work, figures something out, goes home, repeat, repeat. The mystery's solution is fairly obvious about half way through. Although Rozan is familiar with Manhattan and knows a lot about the construction industry, she can't transform her expertise into an involving story.

Erienan

S J Rozan is an incredible writer. Her descriptive powers are second to none. I have read this series before but this time I read them non-stop and in order. She switches narrator with each book between Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. No Colder Place is in Bill's voice. Bill and Lydia are private investigators and have become friends. They are each other's go to person, called in when help is needed. There is some romantic interest but Lydia is very Chinese and Bill isn't. Most of Lydia's family does not approve of Bill but Bill perseveres. At the rate they are going it will be the end of this century before they decide what to do. It has been several years since the last Chin-Smith book but I have heard that there will be another. I can't wait!

Nagis

Not the best of this series. But still an interesting look at construction and how it works in the Big City. Bill and Lydia are interesting as a pair, but I much prefer Lydia's life than Bill's. But this is the first time I knew more about his past.

Melipra

This series sees a story with Chin or Smith telling it (and didn't I read one that alternates?), and the writing in this award-winning novel was distinctly different from my memory of ones told from the Chin perspective. Ms Rozan seems to blossom when not having to write the dialogues (internal and external) involving Ms Chin, and it's easy to see how it won its award. There's a place for both approaches, I think, but if you had to choose which is the more serious, the Smith perspective takes that prize.

Kison

No Colder Place was my introduction to S. J. Rozan's books (I have subsequently read all of her work), and it's a breathtakingly fine piece of writing. Of her two leading series characters, Bill is, by far, my favorite. This talented, clever, brooding, somewhat lovelorn man is a superb creation. Bill lives; he breathes audibly. When he sits down to his piano to learn a piece of music, you can almost hear the melancholy classical notes pouring into the atmosphere.
In this book, his undercover role as a bricklayer is so real that you can almost feel the ache in his spine and the soreness of his hands. It remains, to date, my favorite of Rozan's books. It has my highest recommendation. This is an author at top form, doing what she does best--giving us the wonderful Bill, deep in his element.

Renthadral

I've said it before - I like it better when Lydia is the narrator and this time I've worked out why; the story is still good page-turning stuff, the writing is still good, Bill is still a character I enjoy reading about/going through the story with BUT Lydia is not such a sympathetic character when you don't get her inner thoughts or interesting Chinese American take/commentary on the events. So I liked this novel but can't wait to read the next one which it should be Lydia's turn to narrate!

Berkohi

I like this series. The author alternates viewpoints in her books between the 2 main characters. I like the ones from Lydia Chin's perspective better than those from Bill Smith's. Smith's perspective is dark and troubled and sometimes depressing - not a light read. Lydia is more interesting (to me). However - S.J. Rozan is a VERY good writer, in my opinion. Her plots are tight, her prose is several cuts above the norm, and the overall quality of the books is very good indeed.

I love this author and all of the books in the Bill Smith & Lydia Chin series. When I read a book with Bill featured, he is my favorite character, and when I read one in the series with Lydia featured, Lydia becomes my favorite character. Ms Rozan is a very talented author and architect, amazingly able to make a book centered at a construction cite a non stop enjoyable and clever read. Thank you for making this book available through Kindle!!

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