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S. J. Rozan

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Chinatown (1994) 421 exemplaren
Winter and Night (2002) 337 exemplaren
The Shanghai Moon (2009) 300 exemplaren
Absent Friends (2004) 246 exemplaren
Stone Quarry (1999) 232 exemplaren
Mandarin Plaid (1996) 229 exemplaren
No Colder Place (1997) 228 exemplaren
Boulevard (1995) 221 exemplaren
De hemelse poort (2001) 219 exemplaren
A Bitter Feast (1998) 196 exemplaren
On the Line (2010) 159 exemplaren
Ghost Hero (2011) 144 exemplaren
In this Rain (2006) 123 exemplaren
Bronx Noir (2003) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 101 exemplaren
Blood of the Lamb (2013) 95 exemplaren
Paper Son (2019) 95 exemplaren
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Redacteur; Introductie — 93 exemplaren
The Art of Violence (2020) 53 exemplaren
Family Business (2021) 38 exemplaren
Skin of the Wolf (2014) 35 exemplaren
The Mayors of New York (2023) 27 exemplaren
Crime Hits Home (2022) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 23 exemplaren
The Murder of Mr. Ma (2024) 21 exemplaren
New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set (2012) — Redacteur — 20 exemplaren
Seeing the Moon [short story] (2009) 10 exemplaren
Birds of Paradise [short story] (1994) 9 exemplaren
Heartbreak [short story] (1990) 5 exemplaren
Body English [short story] (2012) 5 exemplaren
Building and Other Stories (2011) 4 exemplaren
Hunting for Doyle [short story] (1999) 2 exemplaren
The Four Dorothys 1 exemplaar
Hoops [short story] 1 exemplaar
Geen titel 1 exemplaar

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I've been reading this series for awhile-- Bill and Lydia make a really good team, with different approaches and trust in each other. Keep them coming Ms Rozan!
 
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ehousewright | 3 andere besprekingen | Feb 13, 2024 |
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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WHAT'S THE MAYORS OF NEW YORK ABOUT?
New York's first female mayor has a problem. A few months after taking office, her fifteen-year-old son has run away. It's not the first time, but it's the first time since she's been elected. She's in the middle of high-stakes negotiations with a police union, so Mayor McCann doesn't feel like she can turn to them without taking some PR hits/weakening in the negotiations.

So, she has her aide hire Bill Smith (who brings along Lydia, of course). It's not easy tracking down one of the most recognizable teens in the city without letting anyone know you're doing that—and it almost seems like the "without letting anyone know" part might overrule the "finding the teen" part of the job.

Now, Lydia's trying to decide if she takes on a case of her own at the same time. Readers know long before they do that these cases will end up intertwined—otherwise, why would Rozan bring it up? And once Bill and Lydia cotton on to that, a hunt for a runaway takes on a whole new layer. Possibly several layers.

THE CHARACTERS
Nah, I'm not going to talk about Bill and Lydia today—I honestly don't know if I have anything else to say about them outside how they're probably my favorite partnership in Crime Fiction (Robin/Cormoran—learn from these two. They trust each other and communicate frankly. Your lives will be the better for it, and the books will be shorter, too. Everyone wins.).

I want to talk about Mark McCann a little bit. At first, he's just the target. He's little more than a MacGuffin to get the plot moving. Then we start to learn a little about him and he becomes an actual character—one I want to learn more about. Then we get to meet him, and I like him a lot. And then Mark goes ahead and does some clever and stupid (read: dangerous) things and I want to see more of him.

The wanting to see more of him goes for everyone who's alive and not under indictment of some sort at the end of the book—the McCann's household staff, the people who help Mark along the way (and then help Bill and Lydia), and so on. I know it's not really Rozan's style, but if we could run across them in future books for a chapter or so just to spend more time with them, I'd really enjoy that. These all have a little more life to them than your typical witnesses, bystanders, and so on in PI Fiction. I particularly appreciated the way they all want some sort of Mayoral favor shown to their neighborhoods/communities and the way that Lydia takes notes to pass them along. A very nice—and real—note.

I feel like I should spend a few paragraphs on the most interesting character in this novel—Aubrey "Bree" Hamilton, the mayor's aide who hires Bill to look for Mark. She and Bill dated years ago, and it's clear from Bill's First-Person Narration that the chip on his shoulder regarding this particular cheating %#&@ has is still pretty deep, no matter what degree of happiness he's found elsewhere. It's not just the way she cheated on him—Bill has no sympathy for her former PR clients (lawyers, largely) or the politicians she now works for, assuming everything they do or say is calculated for their benefit. He trusts Bree less than her bosses—and we see that throughout—but something about a 15-year-old boy who keeps running away from home speaks to Bill, so he has to investigate.

I got off target there, but I thought I'd explain Bill taking the case when he can't stand anyone involved. Bree is a perfectly designed character—the reader can see how she's good at her job, calculating, smart, and generally three steps ahead of anyone (aside from our protagonists occasionally). It's impossible to tell how much she believes a lot of what she says, or if she's saying it out of duty. And then there's what she says to yank Bill's chain a little bit. Bill (and therefore his narration) is so jaded against her that it's hard for us to know how much of our negative reaction to her is justified and how much it is seeing her through Bill's eyes. A great move by Rozan.

SO, WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT THE MAYORS OF NEW YORK?
The pace is fast without being breakneck. The dialogue is sharp and witty. Bill's narration has never been more hard-boiled (his contempt for the client/client's intermediary helps). The characters jump off the page. It's what you want in a PI novel.

Early on, I had inklings about what was behind everything (and I'm pretty sure Rozan intended readers to). As the plot moved forward and we received more and more confirmation about those inklings, it made me uncomfortable and a little queasy. Why couldn't I have been wrong? Why couldn't these have been red herrings? Thanks to some skillful storytelling you don't get bogged down in the wrongness of everything that's afoot—it's there and it colors everything, but your focus becomes on the characters dealing with it all, the reveals to other characters and the nail-biting way this story is resolved.

Yes, I think Rozan could've just as easily and skillfully let the characters and readers wallow in the muck of the crimes behind everything—but it would've changed the tenor of the book so much that the early chapters would feel out of place, and we probably wouldn't have found some resolution that's as satisfying.

Also, just because some things weren't red herrings, don't think that Rozan doesn't toss enough of them at the reader to keep you wondering.

Rozan has been on a hot streak since Paper Son, and The Mayors of New York shows no signs of her slowing down anytime soon. And I am more than okay with that. If you've never indulged in this series before—this would work as a jumping-on point. Almost any of them would, really. The trick is to jump on somewhere for some of the best that PI fiction has to offer. A touch of the classic American PI added to a hefty helping of the 21st century. The Mayors of New York is one I heartily recommend to all.
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hcnewton | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 11, 2024 |
It took me a little while to engage with this one, but the wait was worth it. Bill (narrating) and Lydia agree to locate the missing teenage son of NYC's mayor. During their investigation, we meet several other characters whose leadership positions entitle them to claim similar titles. The pursuit ends up intersecting with other cases and taking some surprising twists and turns, which were fun to follow. My only complaint was that we didn't get to hear from Mrs. Chin.
 
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Jim53 | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 26, 2023 |
I was excited to see S.J. Rozan involved in this collaboration. It's a strange but really fun (and subtly thought-provoking) historical romp set in 1920s London that pairs a Chinese Dr. Watson-style narrator with an impressive Judge Dee - not *that* Judge Dee, but cut from the same cloth as classical Chinese crime stories, a wise outsider who is able to solve crimes and fight bad guys with acrobatic skill; this is somehow paired with a dash of dime novel, but it all works.

The pair investigate the disappearance of a Chinese national who was recruited (like Dee) to provide labor in the battlefields of France during World War I. (Who knew? This is one of those historical lacuna that makes stories like this so enlightening.) They soon are investigating a string of murders while avoiding the interference of a bigoted police officer. There's just enough depth folded into this froth of a story to make it much more than it may seem on the surface.

There are hints Judge Dee will return in future adventures. I'm looking forward to them.
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bfister | Dec 3, 2023 |

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