Annotation
"In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a fifteen-year-old kid named Gary - a kid Bill knows. But before he can find out what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner, Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a community where nothing matters but high school football, and where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. If Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long-buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2003 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
2003 Macavity Award
Characters
| Name | Chin, Lydia |
| Genders | Female |
| Female | |
| Occupations | Private investigator |
| Private investigator | |
| Traits | Chinese American |
| Chinese American | |
| Name | Smith, Bill |
| Genders | Male |
| Male | |
| Occupations | Private investigator |
| Private investigator |
| Genre | Fiction Mystery --Detective duo --Detective, Private --Women sleuths --Detective duo --Detective, Private --Women sleuths |
| Topics | Runaways Teenagers High school students Suspicious deaths Unsolved murders Runaways Teenagers High school students Suspicious deaths Unsolved murders |
| Setting | New York City Warrenstown, New Jersey New York City Warrenstown, New Jersey |
| Series | ||
| Bill Smith/Lydia Chin mystery | ||
| 1 | China trade | |
| 2 | Concourse | |
| 3 | Mandarin Plaid | |
| 4 | No colder place | |
| 5 | A Bitter feast | |
| 6 | Stone quarry | |
| 7 | Reflecting the sky | |
| 8 | Winter and night | |
| 9 | The Shanghai moon | |
| 10 | On the line | |
| 11 | Ghost hero | |