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S. J. Rozan

Autor(a) de China Trade

49+ Works 3,749 Membros 140 Críticas 12 Favorited

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Obras por S. J. Rozan

China Trade (1994) 421 exemplares
Winter and Night (2002) 337 exemplares
The Shanghai Moon (2009) 300 exemplares
Absent Friends (2004) 246 exemplares
Stone Quarry (1999) 232 exemplares
Mandarin Plaid (1996) 229 exemplares
No Colder Place (1997) 228 exemplares
Concourse (1995) 221 exemplares
Reflecting the Sky (2001) 219 exemplares
A Bitter Feast (1998) 196 exemplares
On the Line (2010) 159 exemplares
Ghost Hero (2011) 144 exemplares
In this Rain (2006) 123 exemplares
Bronx Noir (2003) — Editor; Contribuidor — 101 exemplares
Blood of the Lamb (2013) 95 exemplares
Paper Son (2019) 95 exemplares
The Art of Violence (2020) 53 exemplares
Family Business (2021) 38 exemplares
Skin of the Wolf (2014) 35 exemplares
The Mayors of New York (2023) 27 exemplares
Crime Hits Home (2022) — Editor; Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
The Murder of Mr. Ma (2024) 21 exemplares
New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set (2012) — Editor — 20 exemplares
Seeing the Moon [short story] (2009) 10 exemplares
Birds of Paradise [short story] (1994) 9 exemplares
Heartbreak [short story] (1990) 5 exemplares
Body English [short story] (2012) 5 exemplares
Building and Other Stories (2011) 4 exemplares
Hunting for Doyle [short story] (1999) 2 exemplares
The Four Dorothys 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Home Improvement: Undead Edition (2011) — Contribuidor — 567 exemplares
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon (2011) — Contribuidor — 535 exemplares
Watchlist: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book (2010) — Contribuidor — 320 exemplares
Inherit the Dead (2013) — Contribuidor — 290 exemplares
Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (2010) — Contribuidor — 240 exemplares
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (2007) — Contribuidor — 235 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 189 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 167 exemplares
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (2009) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Two of the Deadliest (2009) — Contribuidor — 156 exemplares
Dangerous Women (1998) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation (2005) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
Manhattan Noir (2006) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
Deadly Housewives (2006) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series (2013) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (2007) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Rich and the Dead (2011) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Anonymous Sex (2022) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
Singapore Noir (2014) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
New Jersey Noir (2011) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Deadly Anniversaries (2020) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted (2017) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (2019) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Mysterious North (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Wild Crimes: Stories of Mystery in the Wild (2004) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Buffalo Noir (2015) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds (2015) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Staten Island Noir (2012) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Murder at the Foul Line (1911) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Vengeance Is Hers (1997) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Deadly Allies II (1994) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Crème de la Crime (2000) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Dark City Lights: New York Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Lethal Ladies (1996) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Fourth Woman Sleuth Anthology (1991) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Witnesses for the Dead: Stories (2022) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Collectibles (2021) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Mystery Street (2001) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Shamus Game (2000) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Hardboiled Brooklyn (2006) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Lethal Ladies II (1998) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying (2010) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense (2009) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Crime After Crime (1998) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology (2020) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Crimespree Magazine #1 and 2 (2011) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes (2012) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Vrouwen onder hoogspanning (1995) 2 exemplares
RIDE 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (2012) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Green Hornet: Still at Large (2012) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Protectors 2: Heroes (2015) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Crimespree Magazine #50 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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I've been reading this series for awhile-- Bill and Lydia make a really good team, with different approaches and trust in each other. Keep them coming Ms Rozan!
 
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ehousewright | 3 outras críticas | Feb 13, 2024 |
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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WHAT'S THE MAYORS OF NEW YORK ABOUT?
New York's first female mayor has a problem. A few months after taking office, her fifteen-year-old son has run away. It's not the first time, but it's the first time since she's been elected. She's in the middle of high-stakes negotiations with a police union, so Mayor McCann doesn't feel like she can turn to them without taking some PR hits/weakening in the negotiations.

So, she has her aide hire Bill Smith (who brings along Lydia, of course). It's not easy tracking down one of the most recognizable teens in the city without letting anyone know you're doing that—and it almost seems like the "without letting anyone know" part might overrule the "finding the teen" part of the job.

Now, Lydia's trying to decide if she takes on a case of her own at the same time. Readers know long before they do that these cases will end up intertwined—otherwise, why would Rozan bring it up? And once Bill and Lydia cotton on to that, a hunt for a runaway takes on a whole new layer. Possibly several layers.

THE CHARACTERS
Nah, I'm not going to talk about Bill and Lydia today—I honestly don't know if I have anything else to say about them outside how they're probably my favorite partnership in Crime Fiction (Robin/Cormoran—learn from these two. They trust each other and communicate frankly. Your lives will be the better for it, and the books will be shorter, too. Everyone wins.).

I want to talk about Mark McCann a little bit. At first, he's just the target. He's little more than a MacGuffin to get the plot moving. Then we start to learn a little about him and he becomes an actual character—one I want to learn more about. Then we get to meet him, and I like him a lot. And then Mark goes ahead and does some clever and stupid (read: dangerous) things and I want to see more of him.

The wanting to see more of him goes for everyone who's alive and not under indictment of some sort at the end of the book—the McCann's household staff, the people who help Mark along the way (and then help Bill and Lydia), and so on. I know it's not really Rozan's style, but if we could run across them in future books for a chapter or so just to spend more time with them, I'd really enjoy that. These all have a little more life to them than your typical witnesses, bystanders, and so on in PI Fiction. I particularly appreciated the way they all want some sort of Mayoral favor shown to their neighborhoods/communities and the way that Lydia takes notes to pass them along. A very nice—and real—note.

I feel like I should spend a few paragraphs on the most interesting character in this novel—Aubrey "Bree" Hamilton, the mayor's aide who hires Bill to look for Mark. She and Bill dated years ago, and it's clear from Bill's First-Person Narration that the chip on his shoulder regarding this particular cheating %#&@ has is still pretty deep, no matter what degree of happiness he's found elsewhere. It's not just the way she cheated on him—Bill has no sympathy for her former PR clients (lawyers, largely) or the politicians she now works for, assuming everything they do or say is calculated for their benefit. He trusts Bree less than her bosses—and we see that throughout—but something about a 15-year-old boy who keeps running away from home speaks to Bill, so he has to investigate.

I got off target there, but I thought I'd explain Bill taking the case when he can't stand anyone involved. Bree is a perfectly designed character—the reader can see how she's good at her job, calculating, smart, and generally three steps ahead of anyone (aside from our protagonists occasionally). It's impossible to tell how much she believes a lot of what she says, or if she's saying it out of duty. And then there's what she says to yank Bill's chain a little bit. Bill (and therefore his narration) is so jaded against her that it's hard for us to know how much of our negative reaction to her is justified and how much it is seeing her through Bill's eyes. A great move by Rozan.

SO, WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT THE MAYORS OF NEW YORK?
The pace is fast without being breakneck. The dialogue is sharp and witty. Bill's narration has never been more hard-boiled (his contempt for the client/client's intermediary helps). The characters jump off the page. It's what you want in a PI novel.

Early on, I had inklings about what was behind everything (and I'm pretty sure Rozan intended readers to). As the plot moved forward and we received more and more confirmation about those inklings, it made me uncomfortable and a little queasy. Why couldn't I have been wrong? Why couldn't these have been red herrings? Thanks to some skillful storytelling you don't get bogged down in the wrongness of everything that's afoot—it's there and it colors everything, but your focus becomes on the characters dealing with it all, the reveals to other characters and the nail-biting way this story is resolved.

Yes, I think Rozan could've just as easily and skillfully let the characters and readers wallow in the muck of the crimes behind everything—but it would've changed the tenor of the book so much that the early chapters would feel out of place, and we probably wouldn't have found some resolution that's as satisfying.

Also, just because some things weren't red herrings, don't think that Rozan doesn't toss enough of them at the reader to keep you wondering.

Rozan has been on a hot streak since Paper Son, and The Mayors of New York shows no signs of her slowing down anytime soon. And I am more than okay with that. If you've never indulged in this series before—this would work as a jumping-on point. Almost any of them would, really. The trick is to jump on somewhere for some of the best that PI fiction has to offer. A touch of the classic American PI added to a hefty helping of the 21st century. The Mayors of New York is one I heartily recommend to all.
… (mais)
½
 
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hcnewton | 3 outras críticas | Jan 11, 2024 |
It took me a little while to engage with this one, but the wait was worth it. Bill (narrating) and Lydia agree to locate the missing teenage son of NYC's mayor. During their investigation, we meet several other characters whose leadership positions entitle them to claim similar titles. The pursuit ends up intersecting with other cases and taking some surprising twists and turns, which were fun to follow. My only complaint was that we didn't get to hear from Mrs. Chin.
 
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Jim53 | 3 outras críticas | Dec 26, 2023 |
I was excited to see S.J. Rozan involved in this collaboration. It's a strange but really fun (and subtly thought-provoking) historical romp set in 1920s London that pairs a Chinese Dr. Watson-style narrator with an impressive Judge Dee - not *that* Judge Dee, but cut from the same cloth as classical Chinese crime stories, a wise outsider who is able to solve crimes and fight bad guys with acrobatic skill; this is somehow paired with a dash of dime novel, but it all works.

The pair investigate the disappearance of a Chinese national who was recruited (like Dee) to provide labor in the battlefields of France during World War I. (Who knew? This is one of those historical lacuna that makes stories like this so enlightening.) They soon are investigating a string of murders while avoiding the interference of a bigoted police officer. There's just enough depth folded into this froth of a story to make it much more than it may seem on the surface.

There are hints Judge Dee will return in future adventures. I'm looking forward to them.
… (mais)
 
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bfister | Dec 3, 2023 |

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Obras
49
Also by
71
Membros
3,749
Popularidade
#6,764
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
140
ISBN
174
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
12

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