Hardback: Private Investigator Bill Smith is sent on a high-stakes chase when an electronically altered voice on his cell phone announces that Lydia Chin, his occasional partner, has been kidnapped. To keep Lydia alive, Smith will have to play - and win - an elaborate game of the kidnapper’s devising against impossible odds.
The first move sends him to an empty bar in Brooklyn where he finds the body of a small Chinese woman dressed like Lydia just as the building is surrounded by police. Now Smith is on the run from the police, suspected of murder, and in the worst trouble of his very troubled life.
Enlisting the help of Lydia’s hacker cousin Linus, and Linus’s cohort Trella, Smith has to stay one step ahead of the cops as he races against the clock in a game of wits with a sneering, shadowy psychopath.
With few clues and no time to spare, Smith must uncover the secret behind the kidnapper’s identity and the reason he has come after Smith - and hope this will lead him to Lydia before it is too late.
On The Line (2010) is the tenth instalment in the gripping PIs Bill Smith and Lydia Chin series set in New York.
About the author: SJ Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of eighteen novels and six dozen short stories. Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. She is also the recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award and recently received the Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.
Bronx Noir, a short story anthology S J edited, was chosen NAIBA “Notable Book of the Year.” She also co-edited, with Jonathan Santlofer, the anthology Dark End of the Street. Spring 2022 will see Crime Hits Home, the Mystery Writers of America anthology, edited by S J.
SJ has served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and is ex-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She speaks, lectures and teaches, and she runs a summer writing workshop at the Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy. In January 2003, SJ was an invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 2005 Left Coast Crime convention in El Paso, Texas made her its Guest of Honour and she was Toastmaster at Bouchercon 2009. A former architect in a practice that focused on police stations, firehouses, and zoos, S J Rozan lives in lower Manhattan.
Rating: 3/5
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