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The Shanghai Moon (2009)

by S.J. Rozan(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312245564 (ISBN13: 9780312245566)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Lydia Chin & Bill Smith

review 1: I listened to this book as an audio book. It was a surprise! I really enjoyed the light entertaining style of this mystery. The real treat was that it was about a young Chinese detective solving a Holocaust survivor's lost jewelry case. So the combination of listening to descriptions of Chinatown, NY and the sights, smells and sounds...also the foods combined with the story of how a young girl escaped Germany and her survival in Shanghai during the war was fascinating. This was another new history of life during the 1940' s that I had not learned about before.
review 2: A decidedly mixed bag. The pluses are an engaging back story about the flight of Jews to Shanghai during WWII and descriptions of life there at the time. The big minus is an almost incompr... moreehensible plot that gets more convoluted and unlikely as it goes along. It's also about 50 pages too long. And, as I near the end of the series, I continue to wish for some explanation - a prequel, maybe - of how Bill and Lydia first got together. less

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