Ghost Month (Taipei Night Market Novel): 1 - Softcover

Ed Lin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616958375 ISBN 13: 9781616958374

Publisher: Soho Press Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan

August is Ghost Month in Taiwan - a time to pay respects to the dead and avoid unlucky omens.

Jing-nan, who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, isn't superstitious, but this August will haunt him. He learns that his high school sweetheart has been murdered - found scantily clad near a highway where she was selling betel nuts. 'Betel nut beauties' are typically women in desperate circumstances, but Julia Huang was high school valedictorian, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her, she was far away, happily enrolled in NYU's honour program.

The facts don't add up. Julia's parents don't think so, either, but the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating, but nothing can prepare him for what he is about to learn, or how it will change his life.

About this title

About the Author

Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He's the author of several books: Waylaid (Kaya Press, 2002), his literary debut, and his Robert Chow crime series, set in 1970s Manhattan Chinatown. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soho Press Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616958375
• ISBN 13: 9781616958374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1