Paper Son

The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: thats what they call the Mississippi Delta. Its not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought shed have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didnt know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippiand that Lydia has to rush down south and get him outLydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind the wheel. From the river levees to the refinement of Oxford, from old cotton gins to new computer scams, Lydia soon finds that nothing in Mississippi is as she expected it to be. Including her cousins legal troublesor possibly even his innocence. Can she uncover the truth in a place more foreign to her than any shes ever seen?