Leonard Chang

An Allen Choice Novel

1 - Underkill (May-2003)
2 - Fade to Clear (May-2004)

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  Over the Shoulder
  

  • Feb-2001
  • / General Fiction
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  Choice and his partner, Paul Baumgartner, are security specialists for Silicon Valley executives.When Paul gets killed on the job, Choice and an inexperienced Bay Area reporter, Linda Maldonado, begin looking into the puzzling circumstances of the mu...

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  Underkill
  

  • May-2003
  • / Private Investigator
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  An Allen Choice Novel - 1
  

  Edgy and as engrossing as Leonard Chang's acclaimed debut crime novel Over the Shoulder, Underkill finds Korean American investigator Allen Choice on a case that becomes as much a personal journey as an exploration of murder and its harrowing consequ...

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  Fade to Clear
  

  • May-2004
  • / Private Investigator
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  An Allen Choice Novel - 2
  

  In this new installment, Allen Choice, now a full partner at Baxter & Choice Investigations, finds his life in upheaval by the reappearance of his ex-lover Linda. Over the objections of his current girlfriend Serena, Allen reluctantly takes on the ca...

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  The Fruit 'n Food
  

  • Aug-2006
  • / Historical
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  A drama of society's perpetual struggle for renewal and reconciliation. It is an elegant story of the zone of conflict between African and Asian Americans and, in the central character, the poignancy and contradictions of tribalism and graternity are...

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  Dispatches from the Cold
  

  • Jul-2009
  • / Suspense
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  What would you do if strange letters began appearing in your mail box? Read them? When the unnamed narrator of this novel opens misdirected letters, he enters the harsh, disturbing world of Farrel Gorden. Gorden, an assistant manager in a sporting go...

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  Crossings
  

  • Aug-2009
  • / Suspense
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  Crossings takes an unflinching look at the lives of Korean immigrants, legal and illegal, in the San Francisco Bay Area. This novel centers on Sam, a widower, who finds himself in debt to a local gangster and Unha, an illegal immigrant working at a n...

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  Triplines
  

  • Jul-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  Lenny Chang, the young protagonist of this autobiographical novel, is transplanted from New York City to a suburb on Long Island, and navigates his fractured family in this new, hostile environment. His alcoholic father, a Navy veteran strugglin...

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  The Lockpicker
  

  • Jul-2017
  • / Thriller
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  Jake Ahn, burglar and jewel thief, gets involved in a burglary in Seattle that turns violent when his partner tries to doublecross him. Escaping to San Francisco, Jake looks up his brother, Eugene, and finds himself in the middle of Eugene's marital ...

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