Pages
352
Year
2010
Language
English

About

February 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator, who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice-whatever it costs. From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city, her city, seeking the truth. An outstanding series debut.

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"Beautifully imagined and beautifully written--this book does everything great fiction is supposed to."
Lee Child
"A stunning recreation of time and place that I greatly enjoyed...as will everyone who reads it."
Robert B. Parker
"Big and ambitious, both reverent and original. Author Kelli Stanley has her eye on greatness."
George Pelecanos

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