In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar. Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong–based “Uncle,” who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razor sharp intellect and resourcefulness allows her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.
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In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it’s in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava’s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . .

Taken to the June meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers, held a Cravings Market Restaurant.

Picked up at the monthly bookcrossing meeting at Cravings Market Restaurant.

Picked this up at the August meeting. I swore I would not start another series but this sounded way too interesting.

I quite enjoyed this book, an easy read and entertaining from beginning to end.

I released this book at cravings market restaurant at the monthly bookcrossing meeting.

Picked this up at the August BookCrossing Meeting

Enjoyed this book very much. A little long as it included the prequel but I am looking forward to continuing with the series.

Missed the January meeting so taking to our high tea.

Picked up at the January meeting/Christmas party weekend.

Taken to the July meeting! Great new series - I originally downloaded the first 4 books to take on vacation and ended up reading the first 6 - but I'll bring them back in chunks!

To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!

Caught at local book crossing meetup.

Controlled release at local meetup.

Not bad, but I found parts repetitive and I could tell it was written by a man, with some of the description. I didn't really connect with the character much. Not a bad read though.

Picked up at our November meeting, we had 15 BookCrossers in attendance and so many books!