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The disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park brings Detective Sergeant April Woo and her canine unit into the case, but the crime-fighting team sniffs out another body instead, complicating an already difficult murder investigation.

When CIA operative Catherine Ling's old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about.

In China in the early 1930s, sisters Junan and Yinan are inseparable. Junan enters into an arranged marriage and falls in love with Li Ang, her soldier husband. Separated from him when the Japanese invade China, Junan sends the unmarried Yinan to keep her husband's household. What is intended as an arrangement of convenience turns to betrayal when Li Ang and Yinan have an affair. As China is divided by communism, the family is also rent in two with...

"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--

"Amid the upscale elegance and random violence of New York's Upper West Side, a saleswoman hangs from the chandelier of a trendy boutique. The corpse wears an expensive dress; garish makeup disfigures her face. Maggie Wheeler has been dead for two days, two blocks from the police station."--BOOK JACKET. "Detective April Woo of the N.Y.P.D.; who not so long ago worked out of the relative obscurity of Chinatown, and her partner, Detective Sergeant Mike...

Enduring a limited existence with her Chinese-American father, Charlie Wong discovers new opportunities and perspectives when she takes a job at a ballroom dance studio where her natural talents begin to emerge.