S.J. Rozan

Winter and Night

S.J. Rozan

• 2003 Edgar–Novel winner
• 2003 Macavity-Novel winner
• 2003 Anthony-Novel nominee
• 2003 Barry-Novel nominee
• 2003 Shamus-Novel nominee
• Score: 38.53

Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD, who are holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what’s going on, Gary escapes Bill’s custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets…

Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, try to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Gary’s family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover…

Reflecting the Sky

S.J. Rozan

• 2002 Shamus-Novel winner
• 2002 Anthony-Novel nominee
• 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
• Score: 22.52

S. J. Rozan is widely regarded as one of the finest crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Praised by critics and colleagues alike, her works have been finalists for most of the major awards and have won both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Now, with Reflecting the Sky, she has written her finest, most broad-ranging novel to date.

Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City’s Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple…

No Colder Place

S.J. Rozan

• 1998 Anthony-Novel winner
• 1998 Barry-Novel nominee
• 1998 Shamus-Novel nominee
• Score: 22.48

Bill Smith is going undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story Manhattan site of Crowell Construction’s latest project. His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he checks out the foreman who’s under suspicion. A crane operator has disappeared—along with some heavy machinery. But when a well-orchestrated riot causes the foreman’s “accidental” death, Smith plunges into a morass of bribery, blackmail and blood looking for answers. With the help of his Chinese-American partner Lydia Chin, he follows a…

Concourse: A Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Mystery

S.J. Rozan

• 1996 Shamus-Novel winner
• Score: 10.46

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…

Stone Quarry: A Novel

S.J. Rozan

• 2000 Shamus-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.5

Bill Smith’s country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city’s savage streets—a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items—six paintings which could reveal Eve’s highly guarded thirty-year-old secret—he caves. When Smith’s partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It’s a simple case—until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the…