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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312959449 ISBN: 0312959443 Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 291 Publication Date: September 15, 1996 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks Editorial Review: Product Description: It flows through the Bronx like a river between banks of faded elegance. And at the end of the avenue called the Grand Concourse is the place people go to die, the Bronx Home for the Aged. The only trouble is the people dying there are going before their time. Bill Smith has been hired by an old friend to investigate the brutal killing of a young security guard on the Bronx Home grounds. Going undercover, Smith wades out into a sea of violence and lies washing up against the old brick building. When a second murder is committed, Smith knows that there's a method to the madness. With the help of bright, young Chinese-American investigator Lydia Chin, Smith uncovers a web of corruption that's found a home in the Bronx. Now he has to figure out who will die next. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Solid Second Book to Continue a Series WithUnlike her first book, "China Trade", this edition of the series deals with Bill Smith (with Lydia playing a supporting role). He is both the narrator and the protagonist in this well build and well thought out mystery. Each occurance in the book, whether a murder or someone following him on the streets, leads to another revelation that takes us deeper into the story and helps to explain prior occurances. The story begins with Bill getting a call from the man who trained him to be ... Read More Rating: - A Superbly Taut Mystery from one of Today's Best WritersAt first, I had my doubts about the mundane setting of a Bronx nursing home, but S.J. Rozan surprised me in the end. His old mentor has asked Bill Smith for a favor--to look into the murder of a security guard at the home. After including his partner, Lydia Chin, and some poking around, another murder occurs, much like the first one, with the victim being beaten to death. The characters that Bill Smith meets in his investigation of two murders are well-written and play an instrumental role in ... Read More Rating: - You MUST read this great seriesIf you are an avid mystery/thriller reader like myself, you probably have one or two series' that stand out above the rest. A series in which every book adds to a whole. I would say that Rozan's Bill Smith/Lydia Chin is one of those and if you have not read any of them before, you are in for several great reads in the near future. One aspect of this series that I really like a lot is that it switches from one book to the next in its characater point of view. By that I mean, one book ... Read More Rating:  - Chin & Smith - Book 2Several months ago I read "China Trade" and enjoyed it immensely. Lydia Chin, Chinese-American Manhattanite, was a fun new slueth. Her partner, Bill Smith, had a small role in the book which was filled with Chinese-American culture. Concourse is an entirely different sort of book. It's narrated by Bill Smith and is almost entirely his adventure. Maybe it was the monotoned narrator on the Chivers audiotape but I found myself vacillating between neutral and negative when it came to Bill. ... Read More Rating: - A dramatic and well-written P.I. novelI thought this was a well plotted and hard hitting PI novel. It is a fast paced, well-written page-turner with a dramatic and satisfying conclusion. Smith and Chin are interesting and likeable characters, but possibly a bit underdeveloped. (But I'll attribute this minor complaint to the fact that I did not read the first Rozan book.) The Smith/Chin relationship seems a little familiar, and the relationship with the burned out detective also seems overdone, but overall, Rozan creates a believable ... Read More |
