Ian Hamilton Books in Order

Still grieving the murders of close allies, Ava launches a personal hunt for those responsible that takes her from Toronto to Los Angeles and Beijing. With old friends at her side, she targets the China Movie Syndicate and a powerful security official who ordered the hit.

At Cannes for the premiere of a risky film she quietly helped finance, Ava watches its success trigger political blowback. When the producer vanishes en route to Los Angeles, she must confront Chinese pressure and covert detention to save both the movie and her friends.

When a warehouse connected to Ava’s business interests is destroyed in Sarawak, she discovers the local Chong dynasty may be behind the attack. Her investigation exposes a vast illegal logging operation that threatens Indigenous communities and forces her into open conflict with the family.

Years after his rise in Fanling, Uncle learns he has terminal cancer and starts setting his affairs in order. Working with Ava Lee on one last complex fraud case, he revisits the loves, losses, and gambles that defined his life in and out of the triads.

On the eve of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover, violent turf wars erupt among rival gangs and draw the attention of both local police and mainland security officials. Uncle is asked to broker peace, balancing survival, loyalty, and a risky deal that could reshape the triads.

As retirement approaches, American insurance executive Jack Anderson finally admits that he was abandoned as a child in a Glasgow cinema and adopted overseas. Returning to Scotland with his wife, he searches for his missing sister and unearths buried family loyalties and threats.

After her best friend’s father dies by suicide over a fraudulent investment, Ava vows to track down the missing money. The trail leads from Europe to Singapore, pulling her into illegal diamond trading, drug routes, and offshore accounts tied to a powerful family.

In 1980, as China opens special economic zones in places like nearby Shenzhen, Uncle sees that new policies could either destroy or enrich the Fanling triad. He works every angle he can, trying to shield his people while turning historic change into opportunity.

While visiting an ailing Xu in Shanghai, Ava hears that an old enemy has launched a brutal bid to reclaim Hong Kong’s Wanchai district. With allies kidnapped and deadlines set in blood, she is forced to engineer a risky end to a gang war.

In 1969 Hong Kong, the Dragon Head of the Fanling triad dies and rival factions scramble for control. As outside gangs move on their territory, quiet administrator Chow Tung must decide whether to step forward and protect the organization or watch it collapse.

Summoned to Manila by an old friend, Ava is asked to investigate a remote college in the Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi that may be training extremists. Partnering with a wary CIA agent, she uncovers a plot that tests her ethics as much as her skills.

Ava travels to Beijing for the premiere of her lover Pang Fai’s new film and learns that Fai is being blackmailed by powerful men in the movie industry. To free her, Ava must navigate scandal, surveillance, and the dangerous egos behind state-approved cinema.

Ava and her partners debut their PÖ fashion line at London Fashion Week, only to attract the interest of a ruthless luxury conglomerate. When powerful rivals move to crush the brand, she teams up with Xu and takes the fight from catwalks to crime syndicates.

In Shanghai for a fashion launch, Ava learns that Xu is being pressured by the powerful Tsai political clan to reenter the drug trade. To protect him, she unpicks a web of state-backed corruption that stretches from provincial China to Western capitals.

Through the Three Sisters investment company, Ava backs a furniture business run by two sisters in Borneo. When a dispute with a Dutch buyer turns ugly, she travels to Europe and Kota Kinabalu, confronting local gangs and a mysterious ally from Shanghai.

Ava’s new business ventures put her in close partnership with Xu, the ambitious head of Shanghai’s triad. As he campaigns to lead all the societies, she is drawn into lethal internal politics where investment choices and allegiances can mean life or death.

A routine check on a suspected Ponzi scheme leads Ava Lee to a small bank in Indonesia run by a charming Scottish expatriate. She soon uncovers a sophisticated money-laundering pipeline for the Italian mob and finds herself in a bitter, very personal showdown.

Just starting her own firm, young forensic accountant Ava Lee agrees to help a desperate client recover more than a million dollars stolen by a Hong Kong importer. The hunt draws her into the city’s violent debt-collection underworld and toward a life-altering alliance.

Ava’s half brother is trapped in a collapsing real-estate venture in Macau, and her family stands to lose everything. As she follows the money behind the deal, Ava is pulled into Hong Kong’s triad world and forced to choose how far she will go.

Chinese tycoon Wong Changxing discovers that his prized Fauvist paintings are fakes and turns to Ava Lee for help. Her investigation into a hundred-million-dollar art fraud sends her through Europe and North America, where elite auction houses hide dangerous criminal partners.

When a seafood deal collapses and five million dollars vanish, forensic accountant Ava Lee follows the money trail from North America to Hong Kong, Thailand, and Guyana. Her search pits her against corrupt officials and a ruthless fixer who dominates the local underworld.

Tasked with recovering fifty million dollars stolen from a Filipino billionaire, Ava Lee chases a web of land fraud and online gambling from Vancouver to Las Vegas and Costa Rica. High-stakes poker, political connections, and a vengeful enemy all close in at once.