The Shanghai Moon # aka Trail of Blood

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• Book ID: 108640979
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 346 KB
• Series: Bill Smith & Lydia Chin 7
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: A LETHAL INHERITANCE China, 1938. Eighteen-year-old Rosalie Gilder flees Nazi-occupied Austria with her younger brother. Hidden among their belongings are a few precious family heirlooms, their only protection against the hard times that await them as they join Shanghais growing population of Jewish refugees.New York, present day. Chinese-American detective Lydia Chin is hired by an old friend to investigate the recent theft of a cache of holocaust assets, thought to once belong to the Gilders. However, before she makes much headway, her friend is shot dead. Neither Lydia nor her partner, Bill, believe the NYPDs theory that his death was a robbery gone bad. Both fear they are no longer looking for a thief but a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to reclaim the past