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1) Dead sleep
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A woman comes face-to-face with a serial killer who glorifies the art of death in this “ingenious”* thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series.
They are called “The Sleeping Women.” A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing…The...
They are called “The Sleeping Women.” A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing…The...
3) The borrowed
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Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A Eurasian detective investigating a series of murders in Hong Kong discovers a power struggle in preparation for the colony's takeover by China. The participants are the American mafia, cynical British diplomats and a Chinese warlord. By the author of A Personal History of Thirst.
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Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. It consists of ninety-nine sketches of life in Hong Kong just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature develops from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and unfurls alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life. Dung blends vivid everyday details-Portuguese...
10) Nine dragons
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
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English
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Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquor store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 5
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
13) The expatriates
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong ... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident...
Author
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse, his life is thrown into turmoil. Less than twenty-four...
17) Rain storm
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
18) Jade Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The Donovan International gem-trading empire is under a cloud of suspicion when jade expert Lianne Blakely is accused of stealing one of China's prized artifacts.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After twenty years as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, that "most melancholy street in the city, the street where the dead congregated." It is through these jaded eyes that Gyle watches the city around him--once overflowing with wine dinners and private members' clubs--erupt...
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