Stone Quarry: A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1466825200
- ISBN-13
- 9781466825208
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-15
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Author
- S. J. Rozan
Description
Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smith's partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It's a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the playing field. Now the stench of corruption fills this rural paradise, as Bill and Lydia scour through dangerous secrets and greedy corridors for the stone-cold truth...
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