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Marilyn Stasio surveys the latest crime novels and finds them very much to her liking.
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Paper Son by S.J. Rozan: Lydia and Bill in their most foreign setting yet -- Mississippi
Paper Son by S.J. Rozan @SJRozan ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Lydia and Bill in their most foreign setting yet -- Mississippi #PaperSon #NetGalley
Paper Son
by S. J. Rozan Series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith, #12eARC, 352 pg. Pegasus Books, 2019
Read: June 12 – 17, 2019
One thing I’ve said (possibly too often) as I talk about this series is how much I enjoy teh conversations between Lydia and Bill — but I think one of the conversations between Lydia and her mother tops anything the partners have to say (until the last conversation, anyway), and…
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The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan
The Shanghai Moon by @SJRozan ★ ★ ★ ★ A cross-cultural mystery spanning decades & continents shows Lydia and Bill at their best
The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan Series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith, #9Hardcover, 373 pg.Minotaur Books, 2010 Read: February 16 – 18, 2016 Oh, man . . . things got away from me and I haven’t been able to reconnect with Lydia or Bill for too long now (14 months between books I think) — I missed them. Thankfully, it took no time at all to get back in the groove. Speaking of breaks, following the…
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Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Small town crime and some really big stakes are at the center of this Bill Smith tale
Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan Series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith, #8Hardcover, 338 pg. Minotaur Books, 2002 Read: December 11 – 14, 2015 On the whole, I enjoy the Lydia Chin novels in this series more than the Bill Smith ones, while I’d say the Bill Smith novels are better novels. Winter and Night was the best of both worlds — it was probably the best written in the series, and I really enjoyed…
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Reflecting the Sky by S. J. Rozan
Reflecting the Sky by S. J. Rozan ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Lydia and Bill get in all sorts of trouble in Hong Kong
Reflecting the Sky by S. J. Rozan Series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith, #7 Hardcover, 312 pg. Thomas Dunne Books, 2001 Read: October 24 – 26, 2015 I love reading the conversations that Lydia and Bill have — especially those that have little-to-nothing to do with their work. In the opening pages of this book, where Lydia explains to Bill what Grandfather Gao wants them to do, and where he wants them to…
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Stone Quarry by S. J. Rozan
Stone Quarry by S. J. Rozan ★ ★ ★ ★ The best (so far) of a really, really good series
Stone Quarry
by S. J. Rozan
Hardcover, 276 pg. Minotaur Books, 1999 Read: March 3, 2015I feel a little awkward about this one, because I haven’t found (read: made) the time to review the previous book in the series, but I just finished this one and didn’t want to put it off, in case I forgot the experience. So far, the Bill Smith novels in this series haven’t thrilled me — they’re interesting,…
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No Colder Place by S. J. Rozan
Some thoughts on No Colder Place by S. J. Rozan 3.5/5 Stars
No Colder Place
by S.J. Rozan
Hardcover, 288 pg. St. Martin’s Press, 1997 Read: June 5, 2014
Rozan was able to tap into her day job here and use her knowledge of architecture, construction — particularly the idiosyncratic way that construction is done in NYC. Bill, and the tune/atmosphere Rozan uses for his books, is able to be pensive, reflective, and almost poetic in thinking about the act of…
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"In 34 books, I've never shot anyone in the shoulder, and that’s the way they’re always shot in movies... I shoot 'em in the butt, or the leg."
To honor crime novelist Elmore Leonard, we dug into our archive and published this talk with mystery writer S. J. Rozan from 1998. He talks about his 34th novel, Cuba Libre, the movie adaptations of his stories (Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, Out of Sight), his writing process and more.
