This is a light, interesting book featuring a Chinese-American PI set in NYC's Chinatown. The back story comes to us from Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and Chinese civil war. The story includes lots of interesting tidbits of history about European Jews who found refuge in Shanghai and the effects of the war and revolution on the residents of the city. There are lots of twists and turns and some fun humor with a theme of family loyalty. This is book 9 of a series and evidently the protagonist and her partner are patching things up after some kind of falling out. Not knowing what this was about did not detract from my enjoyment of the story.

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