MysteryLarge Print Edition* A Mystery Guild SelectionBack from their Shamus Award-winning excursion, private investigators Bill Smith and Lydia Chin go undercover on a Manhattan construction site plagued by a series of thefts. What seemed like a relatively easy job turns into much more as the pair find themselves in the midst of fraud and murder that could reach into the heart of the underworld. S.J. Rozan and Sue Grafton are the only female writers to win the prestigious Shamus Award for the best novel of the year.
SJ Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx and is proud of it. She spent over twenty years as an architect in New York City and is kind of proud of that, too. Now she writes and teaches. She's done 10 books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series (the newest, ON THE LINE, comes out Sept. 28, 2010) and two standalones. She's also published three dozen short stories. A collection of her stories, A TALE ABOUT A TIGER, is available, and a second volume is coming.
SJ's work has won the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, Nero and Macavity Awards, and she's a recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon. She's served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She's a past President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She's been Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime (El Paso, 2003), Toastmaster at Bouchercon (Indianapolis, 2009), an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (2003) and as if that weren't enough, she has the key to the city of Fort Worth, Texas.
