Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Books in Order

When antique porcelains vanish from a Chinatown museum, PI Lydia Chin follows the trail through gangs, family loyalties, and two murders. It's a sharp first case that shows how dangerous neighborhood politics can get.

Bill Smith goes undercover at a Bronx home for the aged after a security guard is beaten to death. What starts as a quiet case opens into gang violence, political corruption, and old loyalties that refuse to stay buried.

A simple ransom drop for stolen fashion sketches goes wrong almost immediately, leaving Lydia Chin chasing answers from Chinatown sweatshops to Manhattan wealth. The case pulls her and Bill into murder, extortion, and a very public new fashion label.

Bill Smith poses as a bricklayer on a Manhattan high-rise job plagued by thefts, accidents, and mounting deaths. With Lydia working angles of her own, he finds a case built on corruption, mob ties, and the hard logic of construction work.

Lydia investigates the disappearance of Chinatown restaurant workers just as a union office bombing turns the case deadly. Going undercover as a dim sum waitress, she finds labor fights, smuggling, and neighborhood power struggles colliding.

What should be rest time at Bill's upstate cabin turns into a tangle of stolen paintings, a missing girl, and a fresh murder. When Lydia joins him, the quiet country setting proves every bit as dangerous as the city.

A trip to Hong Kong to deliver ashes, a letter, and a jade Buddha turns into a kidnapping case. Lydia and Bill are pulled into family secrets, smuggling, and Triad politics far from their usual New York ground.

When Bill's teenage nephew escapes police custody, Bill and Lydia race to find him before something worse happens. Their search leads to a New Jersey town full of football fever, buried crimes, and very old damage.

Lydia starts by looking for missing jewels tied to Jewish refugees who fled to wartime Shanghai. A murder and a legendary brooch pull her and Bill into a case where history, family stories, and present-day greed meet.

Someone has kidnapped Lydia Chin, and Bill has only hours to follow a trail of taunting clues across New York. The chase becomes a fast, dirty case involving smugglers, hidden agendas, and bodies left in the way.

Rumors that a Chinese artist killed at Tiananmen may be producing new work draw Lydia into New York's contemporary art scene. With Bill beside her, she faces collectors, politics, and a mystery with real international stakes.

Lydia and Bill head to the Mississippi Delta to clear her newly discovered cousin Jefferson Tam of murdering his father. The case opens into family history, prejudice, and the long shadow of Chinese American immigration.

A gifted painter just out of prison thinks he may be killing women but cannot remember what he has done. Bill and Lydia enter the art world to find out whether their troubled client is guilty, or being used.

After the death of Chinatown tong leader Big Brother Choi, a fight over his building and his successor turns murderous. Lydia and Bill have to navigate family claims, real estate pressure, and old loyalties with money behind them.