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As she investigates four missing waiters in New York's Chinatown, PI Lydia Chin stumbles on a racket involving the smuggling of illegal immigrants. She also finds evidence of the smuggling of dissidents out of China on behalf of the U.S. government.Tags
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Lydia Chin should have been a gymnast instead of a detective because she is great at leaping to conclusions and having them pan out. I tired of Rozan moving the action along through Chin leaping to the right conclusion about who did what.
This is another good mystery series. Lydia Chin is a feisty Chinese/American private investigator practicing in New York's Chinatown. Amusing repartee between her and her partner and well-drawn characters contribute to the enjoyment.
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49+ Works 4,306 Members
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Bitter Feast
- Original title
- A Bitter Feast
- Original publication date
- 1998-09
- People/Characters
- Lydia Chin; Bill Smith; Peter Lee; Mary Kee; H. B. Yang; Duke Lo
- Important places
- Chinatown, New York, New York, USA
- Dedication
- For Bubble and Zayde and all the immigrant "mishpocheh" mine and not mine. And for Mok Sim Tsang from the little boss.
- First words
- You really think there'll be trouble?
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Bill began tossing the salad with a dark dressing full of herbs, and I started to look forward to dinner.
- Publisher's editor
- Keith Kahla
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- Members
- 209
- Popularity
- 155,822
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.58)
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 1
