Ian Hamilton

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Ava Lee Novel

0.5 - The Dragon Head of Hong Kong (Dec-2013)
1 - Water Rat of Wanchai (Jul-2011)
2 - Disciple of Las Vegas (Jul-2011)
3 - The Wild Beasts of Wuhan (Mar-2012)
4 - The Red Pole of Macau (Jan-2012)
5 - The Scottish Banker of Surabaya (Jan-2013)
6 - The Two Sisters of Borneo (Feb-2014)
7 - The King of Shanghai (Jan-2015)
8 - The Princeling of Nanjing (Jan-2016)
9 - The Couturier of Milan (Jan-2017)
10 - The Imam of Tawi-Tawi (Feb-2018)
11 - The Goddess of Yantai (Dec-2018)
12 - The Mountain Master of Sha Tin (Jul-2019)

Ava Lee: The Triad Years

1 - The King of Shanghai (Jan-2015)
2 - The Princeling of Nanjing (Jan-2016)
3 - The Couturier of Milan (Jan-2017)

The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung

1 - Fate (Jan-2019)
2 - Foresight (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • In Search of J. D. Salinger

    Pursuing the elusive writer in documents and interviews with friends and acquaintances, the author has pieced together an extended study of Salinger, tracing his life from Park Avenue childhood to his encounters with literary fame...

  • Soho Square

  • The Trouble with Money and Other Essays

    This collection of essays focuses on Salman Rushdie, Stephen Spender, R.S. Thomas, Elisabeth Thomas, Elisabeth Bishop and many others. They take biography as their starting point, but their final aim is to iluminate the writer's work. Not limited sim...

  • Disciple of Las Vegas

    An Ava Lee Novel - 2

    Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is Ava Lee -- sleek, capable forensic accountant and sleuth. With the help of her Triad-connected partner,...

  • Water Rat of Wanchai

    An Ava Lee Novel - 1

    AVA LEE TAKES ON A MASTER CRIMINAL IN HER MOST DANGEROUS CASE YET In Ian Hamilton's The Water Rat of Wanchai, we meet forensic accountant and martial arts expert Ava Lee in her early days working for the mysterious businessman Uncle as they track ...

  • The Red Pole of Macau

    An Ava Lee Novel - 4

    In Ian Hamilton’s The Red Pole of Macau, family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her half brother, Michael, and his business partner, Simon, from a disastrous multimillion-dollar real-estate deal ...

  • The Wild Beasts of Wuhan

    An Ava Lee Novel - 3

    Meet Ava Lee, alluring but deadly, with a mind like a steel trap, as she chases millions of dollars and dangerous criminals around the globe in this exotic and fast-paced new crime series by Ian Hamilton. In "The Wild Beasts of Wuhan," Wong Changx...

  • The Scottish Banker of Surabaya

    An Ava Lee Novel - 5

    The fifth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series exposes the dark world of money laundering and the Italian mob.Ava begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a ...

  • Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2


    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...



  • Gallipoli Diary, Volume I

    Neither the Asquith banquet, nor the talk at the Admiralty that midnight had persuaded me I was going to do what I am actually doing at this moment. K. had made no sign nor waved his magic baton. So I just kept as cool as I could and had a sound slee...

  • The Dragon Head of Hong Kong

    An Ava Lee Novel - 0.5

    The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series.Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung...

  • The Two Sisters of Borneo

    An Ava Lee Novel - 6

    The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner, Ian Hamilton.Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. She has also set up an investment company with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda Yee. One...

  • Meanjin Crossing

    Will Traverse is a war baby, a Brisbane boy, and in later life a taciturn and solitary retired engineer. But there is another side to Will romantic, lyrical, and deeply sensitive to the culture of the original inhabitants of this part of South-East ...

  • The King of Shanghai

    An Ava Lee Novel - 7
    Ava Lee: The Triad Years - 1

    The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies.It’s been three months since Uncle’s passing, and Ava is finally ready to begin her new life as a partner with May Ling Wong a...

  • The Princeling of Nanjing

    An Ava Lee Novel - 8
    Ava Lee: The Triad Years - 2

    The eighth novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava caught in a labyrinth of high-level political corruption. Ava is in Shanghai for the launch of the PÃ -- clothing line. She has invited Xu, and over the course of the glitzy event and a late-night din...

  • The Couturier of Milan

    An Ava Lee Novel - 9
    Ava Lee: The Triad Years - 3

    New-World China meets Old-World Italy, as Ava investigates the dark side of the glamourous world of fashion in the latest installment of the Ava Lee Novels.Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÃ -- fashion line, one of the major in...

  • The Imam of Tawi-Tawi

    An Ava Lee Novel - 10

    In the most explosive novel in the Ava Lee series to date, Ava partners with a CIA agent to investigate a college on a Philippine island that is suspected of training terrorists -- what she discovers is brutal and shocking. Ava has spent two nights...

  • The Goddess of Yantai

    An Ava Lee Novel - 11

    In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava must infiltrate the seedy world of the Chinese film industry to protect the woman she loves. Ava travels to Beijing for the premiere of Mao’s Daughter, the latest film starring her secret lover, ...

  • Fate

    The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung - 1

    The first book in a gripping new Ava Lee spin-off series featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.Hong Kong, 1969. The Dragon Head of the Fanling Triad has died and there is a struggle to rep...



  • The Mountain Master of Sha Tin

    An Ava Lee Novel - 12

    In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava becomes embroiled in a violent war between feuding gangs vying for control of the Wanchai territory in Hong Kong.Ava is in Shanghai visiting her ailing friend, the Mountain Master Xu, when a triad ...

  • Foresight

    The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung - 2

    1980: A pivotal year in modern Chinese history as Premier Deng Xiaoping begins what he intends to be the transformation of China into an economic superpower. The most visible evidence of Deng’s policy is the creation of Special Economic Zones, and ...

  • The Diamond Queen of Singapore

    In the latest thrilling novel in the Ava Lee series, Ava investigates a Ponzi scheme that takes her from Amsterdam to Antwerp and then Singapore, where she must confront one of the country''s most powerful families.After the father of Ava''s best ...

  • Fortune

    International bestselling author Ian Hamilton returns with a riveting new novel featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung, who is called upon to end a violent turf war between rival gangs and stop Chinese authorities from eliminating the triad societie...

  • Bonnie Jack

    From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatr...

  • The Deadly Touch Of The Tigress

  • The Sultan of Sarawak

    Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. After a warehouse owned by the Three Sisters is destroyed under suspicious circumstances, Ava Lee travels t...

  • Finale

    The fourth and final installment in Ian Hamilton’s exhilarating Ava Lee spin-off series The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung.Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Uncle begins preparing for his inevitable death. As he sets his affairs in order, ...

  • The General of Tiananmen Square

    Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film depicting the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for ...

  • The Fury of Beijing

    AVA LEE IS OUT FOR REVENGE IN THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF IAN HAMILTON’S BESTSELLING THRILLER SERIES Still reeling from the brutal murder of her close associates Lau Lau and Chen, Ava Lee embarks on a quest for revenge that takes her from Toronto to ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ian Hamilton has published 29 books.

Ian Hamilton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fury of Beijing, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, was published in May 1988.

Yes. Ian Hamilton has 3 series.
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