Family Business

The death ofa powerful Chinatown crime bossthrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and—because this is New York City—real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Award-winningnovelistS. J. Rozan.Choi has left the Tong headquartersbuilding to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is atthe center of a tug-of-war between Chinatown preservation interests—including Lydia's brother Tim—and a real estatedeveloper who's desperate to get his hands on it. When Lydia, Bill, and Choi's niece go to the building, they discover the Tong members are equally divided on thequestion of whether the niece should hold onto the buildingor sell it—and make them rich. Entering Choi's privateliving quarters,they find the murdered body of Choi's chief lieutenant. The battle for the building has begun. Can Lydiaand Bill escape being caught in the crossfire?