The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: that’s what they call the Mississippi Delta. It’s not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought she’d have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn’t know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi—and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out—Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind the wheel. From the river levees to the refinement of Oxford, from old cotton gins to new computer scams, Lydia soon finds that nothing in Mississippi is as she expected it to be. Including her cousin’s legal troubles—or possibly even his innocence. Can she uncover the truth in a place more foreign to her than any she’s ever seen?

Most people believe Jimmy Antonelli is bad to the bone... New York detective - and an old friend of the family - Bill Smith is one of the few people who has ever been willing to give Jimmy a second chance. Given his own brushes with the law, Bill has an unsurprising sympathy for the youngest Antonelli brother. But this time Jimmy has gone too far. There's a corpse of a local gangster in the cellar of Antonelli's bar and Jimmy has disappeared... But finding Jimmy is going to be a whole lot easier than proving his innocence... A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Crime Novel

Rozan, a lifelong New Yorker, gathers together these eclectic, mysterious stories about this most famous of boroughs. Contributing authors include Thomas Adcock, Terrence Cheng, Sandra Kitt, and others.