false 4846766 2 With <I>The Shanghai Moon</I>, 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. 4912021 book 3 2 2009 The Shanghai Moon (Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels) total:106|5:34|4:46|3:21|2:3|1:2| 106 425 205 48 5 1 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 09:19:02 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 22:40:51 -0700 2009 1 I think I would enjoy reading about Bill and Lydia investigating just about anything. It was a fine treat then to have the mystery they worked to unravel, as usual, to be first rate. The story takes us into the past, to Shanghai and to the Nazi a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:37:58 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:42:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 14:12:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 14:18:48 -0700 2009 Winter and Night I didn't expect to see them again. This is partly due to Winter and Night's ending (which had enough tragedy to suggest the end of their association), but ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 26 18:03:04 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 18:07:18 -0700 2009
This is a Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mystery. This is the latest one, and apparently I’m missing some back story about Bill and Lydia falling out because of ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 10:51:09 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 10:53:36 -0700 2009 Rozan, S.J. – 9th in series
Minotaur Books, 2009, US Hardcover, ISBN: 9780312245566

First Sentence: “I’m back.”

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What made this so wonderful to me was that Rozan tel...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:07:52 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 19:16:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:26:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:42:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 21:53:43 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 22:02:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 23:03:23 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:23:18 -0700 2009
Lydia Chin, on the outs with Bill Smith, is brought into a case by her collea...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:50:35 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 18:06:09 -0700 2009 The Shanghai Moon for 2 days. Rozan is a wonderful storyteller, and the history that this book ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:42:50 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:16:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 17:42:55 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 21:21:19 -0800 2009
That said, the story hangs on an intere...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 21:15:40 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 11:59:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 13:55:11 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 14:04:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:31:44 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 07:37:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 10:03:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 10:03:09 -0700 2009
The novel also has the added layer of the historical arch of the characters occupying war...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 21:07:59 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 21:07:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 19 01:35:01 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 01:38:53 -0700 2009 but also refers to the Jewish colony seeking ref...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 09:36:16 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 05:50:26 -0700 2009 The Shanghai Moon we get the story of Shanghai's large community of Jewish refugees from Europe before and during WWII -- something I had not even known existed. Fascinating st...more...]]>