S.J. Rozan

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery

1 - China Trade (Oct-1994)
2 - Concourse (Oct-1995)
3 - Mandarin Plaid (Sep-1996)
4 - No Colder Place (Sep-1997)
5 - A Tale About a Tiger (May-1998)
6 - A Bitter Feast (Sep-1998)
7 - Stone Quarry (Sep-1999)
8 - Reflecting the Sky (Feb-2001)
9 - Winter and Night (Feb-2002)
10 - The Shanghai Moon (Feb-2009)
11 - On the Line (Oct-2010)
11.5 - Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case (Sep-2011)
12 - Ghost Hero (Oct-2011)
12.5 - Heartbreak (Feb-2012)
13 - Paper Son (Jul-2019)
14 - The Art of Violence (Dec-2020)
15 - Family Business (Dec-2021)
16 - The Mayors of New York (Dec-2023)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • China Trade

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 1

    CRIMSON NEW YEAR'S BANNERS WITH GOLD LETTERS SNAP IN THE WIND. IN CROWDED STORE WINDOWS THERE ARE CHICKENS, DUCKS, AND CHAINS OF RED-WRAPPED FIRECRACKERS... It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops and close-knit families; it's a w...

  • Concourse

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 2

    NO WAY TO LIVE...AND NO WAY OUT--EXCEPT DEATH. It flows through the Bronx like a river between banks of faded elegance. And at the end of the avenue called the Grand Concourse is the place people go to die, the Bronx Home for the Aged. The only trou...

  • Mandarin Plaid

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 3

    Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand being demanded by the person who stole her design book. But when Lydia--backed by her partner Bill Smith--makes the...

  • No Colder Place

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 4

    NO COLDER CRIME Bill Smith goes undercover again as a favor to an old friend who wants him to investigate thievery on the 40-story Manhattan site of Crowell Construction's latest project. His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he check...

  • A Tale About a Tiger

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 5

    Private investigator Lydia Chin infiltrates New York's Chinatown to stop a dealer in valuable, and illegally obtained, animal parts - the sexual organ of the male tiger, to be exact - believed to have miraculous powers in the mysterious world of Chin...

  • A Bitter Feast

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 6

    It's Lydia Chin's turn to go underground as the Chinese-American PI investigates a case that strikes at the heart of Chinatown's dangerously shifting power structure. Four restaurant workers, including a union organizer, have disappeared, and the uni...

  • Stone Quarry

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 7

    Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen...

  • Reflecting the Sky

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 8

    And now the celebrated master of mystery turns her keen eye to the bustling, crowded streets of Hong Kong, where nothing is as it seems... It's a great honor when Grandfather Gao, a family friend and elder in New York's Chinatown community, asks L...

  • Winter and Night

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 9

    Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative--and personal--case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD, who is holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find ...



  • Absent Friends

    Jimmy. Markie. Vicky. Sally. Tom. Jack. Marian. Their friendships are strong, and their futures bright--until one shattering night that changes everything. Two of the friends will die young. The others are left to pick up the pieces in the shadow of ...

  • In this Rain

    Three years ago, a child's death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattan's lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and ...

  • The Shanghai Moon

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 10

    In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of jewelry dating from World War II, when the city was a safe haven for thousands of Jews fleeing Hitler's Europe. The jewelry was stolen soon after it was found by a Chinese official now believed to be i...

  • On the Line

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 11

    P.I. Bill Smith is sent on a high stakes chase when an electronically modified voice on his cell phone informs him that Lydia Chin, his occasional partner, has been kidnapped. Now if Bill wants to keep Lydia alive, he'll have to play an elaborate gam...

  • The Grift Of The Magi

    in Christmas At The Mysterious Bookshop

    Each year, for the past seventeen years, Otto Penzler, owner of the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has commissioned an original story by a leading mystery writer. The requirements were that it be a mystery/ crime/suspense story, that...

  • BUILDING AND OTHER STORIES

  • The Path

    in Home Improvement: Undead Edition

    There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherwordly portals in the attic. Now, for any homeowner who's ever wondered, "What's that creaking sound?" or fans of "how to" television who'd like a little unreality mixed...

  • Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 11.5

  • Ghost Hero

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 12

    American-Born Chinese PI Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her to track down a rumor. Contemporary Chinese painting is sizzling hot on the art scene and no one is hotter than Chau Chu...

  • Heartbreak

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 12.5



  • Cooking the Hounds

  • Prosperity Restaurant

  • Ride 2: More Short Fiction about Bicycles

    The second collection in the RIDE series of short fiction about bicycles, with contributions by SJ Rozan, Kent Peterson, Barb Goffman, Keith Snyder, Eric Neuenfeldt, Nigel Greene, Jan Maher, Jon Billman, and KI Hope. - - - "this stuff is brilliant .....

  • The Next Nice Day

    in Deadly Housewives

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool

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  • Paper Son

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 13

    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: that’s what they call the Mississippi Delta. It’s not a place Ly...

  • The Art of Violence

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 14

    In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene.Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smit...

  • Blood Rites

  • Blood Ties

  • Body English



  • Out For Blood

  • Trail of Blood

  • Family Business

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 15

    The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and -- because this is New York City -- real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Awar...

  • Crime Hits Home

    The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhe...

  • The Mayors of New York

    A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery - 16

    The new crime novel from the award-winning S. J. Rozan, where private investigators Lydia Chin and Bill Smith find themselves thrust into the mystery behind the disappearance of the teenage son of the mayor of New York.In January, New York City inaug...

  • The Murder of Mr. Ma

    For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new.Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in ...

  • The Railway Conspiracy

    Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction -- and kung fu skills -- to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in a rollicking new mystery set in 1920s London.The follow-up to The Murder of Mr. Ma, ...

Award-Winning Books by S.J. Rozan

Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool
2019 Shamus Award -- P.I. Short Story
Concourse
1995 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
Family Business
2022 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
Ghost Hero
2012 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel
No Colder Place
1998 Anthony Award -- Novel
Reflecting the Sky
2001 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
2002 Anthony Award -- Cover Art
Winter and Night
2003 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
2003 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
2003 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.J. Rozan has published 36 books.

The next book by S.J. Rozan, The Railway Conspiracy, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by S.J. Rozan, China Trade, was published in October 1994.

Yes. S.J. Rozan has 1 series.
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