Red Jade

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10-11-12 Chang 044

Author Henry Chang will read from and discuss about his third detective noir novel Red Jade, and how it wraps up his ‘Chinatown Trilogy’ featuring Chinese-American NYPD Detective Jack Yu. Mr. Chang has previously presented on his first two novels Chinatown Beat and Year of the Dog at AAARI on December 12, 2009, www.aaari.info/08-12-12Chang.

Red Jade – The bodies of a young man and woman are discovered at an address in the Bloody Angle, Chinatown’s historic Tong battleground. Chinese-American NYPD Detective Jack Yu had thought he was done working the Chinatown beat, but old allegiances pull him back in. Is it a simple murder-suicide? As a puzzling web of links to the criminal underworld reveal themselves, Detective Yu’s investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle. Jack tracks a cold-blooded Chinese gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.

URL: www.chinatowntrilogy.com

Author Bio

Henry Chang a graduate of The City College of New York/CUNY with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. He is a native son of New York City's Chinatown and Lower East Side. His poems have appeared in the seminal Yellow Pearl anthology, in Gangs of New York's Chinatown, and The Lineup. He is the crime mystery author of the acclaimed Chinese-American NYPD Detective Jack Yu series -- Chinatown Beat (2006), Year of The Dog (2008), Red Jade (2010), Death Money (2014), and Lucky (2017) -- published by Soho Press Inc./Soho Crime. His short stories appeared in Murdaland (2007 Mug Shot Press), and Asian Pulp (2015 Pro Se Press).