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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Mandarin Plaid by S. J. Rozan Excellent read. has a lot of want to read about, mystery romance locations, travel, more mysteries and the arts. Lydia and her side kick are to just deliver a large amount of money so their new client can retain all the rights to her new line: Mandarin Plaid. Love the design fashion world. There's a lot to this and many do not want to see some together and there are some that get hurt, killed even. Like martial arts involved here, I can just picture the action scenes. Can't wait to find more from this author! I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). Third in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith detective series. In this installment, Lydia is hired to take a ransom payment to a blackmailer and thief who has stolen Genna Jing's design sketches. When Lydia is shot at and the money disappears, Lydia and her partner Bill are fired from the case. Several twists and turns involving the designer's sister, a model agency/prostitution ring, and a Chinatown sweatshop owner begin to complicate matters. What always makes the novels in this series so engaging is the ever-evolving relationship between Lydia and Bill. A smart mystery novel, clever and full of intriguing and intelligent plotlines. (Read March 2003) no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American P.I. who lives in New York Cityâ??s Chinatown, is hired for a simple job. Sheâ??s to deliver the ransom for a set of stolen sketches that comprise the inaugural collection of fashion designer Genna Jing and her new label, Mandarin Plaid. But everything on this simple job goes terribly wrong. The ransom is stolen out from under Lydia, her sometimes partner, Bill Smith, is arrested, and just as she is trying to sort out exactly what is really going on, the client fires her. Lydia, however, isnâ??t about to just let it go. Determined to find answers and preserve her pride, Lydia and Bill follow a confusing trail that leads from the sweatshops of Chinatown to the drawing rooms of Manhattanâ??s wealthy Upper East Side and into a dark underworld of prostitution, drugs, and murder. All they need to uncover is: who stole the sketches, who hijacked the ransom payment, and, most important, who would kill to keep them from the No library descriptions found. |
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The story started out slow. A conversation about the need to drop the ransom ran several pages and some of the characters repeated the same information over and over. While the conversation was realistic it did not advance the plot and I was bored. The author wrote about the fashion business which was appealing to me as I enjoy sewing. There were a number of aspects to putting on a runway show that I was not familiar with and it added some enjoyment to the story. However, I still could not become engaged in the novel. The characters didn't captivate me either. The dialogue between Lydia and Bill was boring. Yes, people actually talk like they did but it detracted from solving the mystery. The slow beginning seemed to have a snowball effect that I was unable to overcome. The plot premise was good though and the title of the fashion collection was sublime.
An entire series could be written about the travails of the fashion business and this fashion label specifically. It would need to be executed better. Unfortunately, I can only rate this mystery 1 out of 5 stars. I feel bad about the rating because this story had considerable promise and is highly rated by other reviewers. ( )