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Fiction Women Sleuths

The Dragon Head of Hong Kong

The Ava Lee Prequel Limited Edition Hardcover

by (author) Ian Hamilton

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Women Sleuths, Crime, Crime
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781770898547
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $100.00

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This specially designed hardcover limited edition of The Dragon Head of Hong Kong: The Ava Lee Prequel comes in its own slipcase. Only 100 copies were printed and each copy is numbered and signed by the author, Ian Hamilton.This special edition hardcover is perfect bound in a square back case and covered with Millbank Linen, and comes with a silk ribbon page-marker. The slipcase is a modification of the e-book cover designed by Gregg Kulick. The interior was designed by Alysia Shewchuk in Minion Pro, a digital typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type.The Dragon Head of Hong Kong is the prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series. Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. Ava goes to Hong Kong, where she plunges into the dangerous underground collection business and meets a man who will forever change her life …

About the author

Ian Hamilton is the author of seven novels in the Ava Lee series: The Dragon Head of Hong Kong: The Ava Lee Prequel, The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Disciple of Las Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, The Red Pole of Macau, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya, and The Two Sisters of Borneo. The Water Rat of Wanchai was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors’ Pick, an Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an Amazon.ca Mysteries and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year, and a Quill & Quire Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year.

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