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Soho Crime
August 2014
On Sale: July 29, 2014
Featuring: Julia Huang; Jing-nan
330 pages
ISBN: 1616953268
EAN: 9781616953263
Kindle: B00I75EW2C
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Suspense | Mystery
Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night
market named after a Joy Division album, and also the
location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often
undocumented Taiwan. August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the
dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and
avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of
water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a
bustling Taipei night market, doesn't consider himself
superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him no
matter what he does. He is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend
from high school has been murdered. She was found scantily
clad and shot on the side of a highway where she was selling
betel nuts to passing truck drivers. Beyond his harrowing
grief for his lost love, Jing-nan is confused by the news. "Betel nut beauties" are usually women in the most desperate
of circumstances; the job is almost as taboo as
prostitution. But Julia Huang had been the valedictorian of
their high school, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her
she was enrolled in NYU's honor program, far away in New York. The facts don't add up. Julia's parents don't think so,
either, and the police seem to have closed the case without
asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some
investigating on his own—reconnect with old classmates, see
if he can learn anything about Julia's life that she might
have kept from them. Reluctantly, he agrees, for Julia's sake. But nothing can prepare him for what he learns, or how it
will change his life.
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