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Eve Diamond Novel - Book 1
Kensington
December 2002
Featuring: Eve Diamond
352 pages
ISBN: 0786015233
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
"Everything was set. Seventeen-year-old Marina Lu had even
ordered custom-made gowns for the ten bridesmaids who, in
several months' time, would have preceded her down the
aisle at her storybook wedding." "There isn't going to be
a wedding. Marina lies dead, alone in her shiny status car
in a suburban shopping center parking lot, her two-carat
diamond engagement ring refracting another abruptly
shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her death merely a
carjacking gone bad? Or is there more to the
story?" "Marina's murder introduces Los Angeles Times
reporter Eve Diamond to a subculture of "parachute kids,"
the rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in
California while their parents live and work in Hong Kong.
Seeking American education and political stability for
their children, the affluent parents often leave only an
elderly housekeeper in charge of their vulnerable
offspring." "What was Marina's story? Why was she, at such
a young age, marrying twenty-four-year-old Michael Ho? Why
is Marina's father, banker Reginald Lu, so reluctant to
provide information? As Eve delves deeper into the
mysteries surrounding Marina's life and death, she
stumbles upon a troubled world of unmoored youth and
parental neglect." "But Marina, in many ways, would seem
to have been among the fortunate. She had money and her
parents had power. Eve soon discovers a dramatically more
tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants
live in virtual sexual slavery. The story of May-li and
her journey from a poor farming home in Fujian, China, to
a brothel in Los Angeles is one that Eve will fight to
tell and will never forget."
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