With The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan returns to her
award-winning, critically acclaimed, and much-loved characters
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith in the first new novel in the series in
seven years.
Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Bill Smith,
Chinese-American private investigator Lydia Chin is brought in by
colleague and former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that
crosses continents, cultures, and decades.
In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European
jewelry dating back to World War II, when Shanghai was an open city
providing safe haven for thousands of Jewish refugees. The jewelry,
identifed as having belonged to one such refugee - Rosalie Gilder -
was immediately stolen by a Chinese official who fled to New York
City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust
assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the
missing jewels.
However, Lydia soon learns that there is much more to the story
than they've been told: The Shanghai Moon, one of the world's most
sought after missing jewels, reputed to be worth millions, is
believed to have been part of the same stash. Before Lydia can act
on this new information, Joel Pilarsky is murdered, Lydia is fired
from the case, and Bill Smith finally reappears on the scene. Now
Lydia and Bill must unravel the truth about the Shanghai Moon and
the events that surrounded its disappearance sixty years ago during
the chaos of war and revolution, if they are to stop more killings
and uncover the truth of what is going on today.
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