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  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781616955328
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 246
  • RRP: $32.99

Death Money




The long-awaited next installment in the Detective Jack Yu series.

When a floater that surfaces in the Harlem River turns out to be Chinese, Yu leaves his downtown precinct to investigate. Yu knocks on the usual doors, and the trail leads to the Gee family, noodle manufacturers who on the surface look like the ideal immigrant success story. 

When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establishments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his most difficult case yet.

  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781616955328
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 246
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Death Money

Praise for Death Money

"Exciting and absorbing . . . Destiny could find no better assistant than the decent, determined Detective Jack Yu."
--Wall Street Journal

"The best Jack Yu mystery yet! Death Money is a lightning-speed sordid tale that travels through the dark alleys of bygone New York City Chinese restaurants. Chester Himes, the master of Harlem mysteries, would have been proud."
--Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Murder on Bamboo Lane and the Mas Arai mystery series

"[A] sensitive exploration of the Chinese American community, from its rival gangs to its generational differences. Another brisk police procedural with a protagonist who manages to bridge two cultures."
--Booklist

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