DRAGON DAY (Ellie McEnroe 3)

Ellie McEnroe's life in Beijing has gotten too complicated. She can deal with her former sort-of-boyfriend, wanted dissident artist Zhang Jianli, returning to Beijing to make some kind of political statement, or maybe it's a performance piece. She can deal with having slept with sometime friend, sometime enemy undercover Chinese Domestic Security Department agent Taoist sex freak Creepy John. She can maybe even deal with her mom's new boyfriend, “that nice Mr. Zhou next door,” member of an underground Chinese house church that “might be Christian.”

But billionaire Sidney Cao and his three children are way more than Ellie is prepared to deal with.

Art-obsessed Sidney is tightly connected to a powerful faction in the Chinese leadership, and his children have grown up wealthy and over-the-top-privileged. When one of the kids gets tangled up with a sleazy American fixer, Sidney turns to Ellie for help.

The last thing Ellie wants is to get sucked into a huge scandal with the potential to embarrass top-level officials during a national leadership transition. And she really doesn't want to investigate a murder.

Too bad you can't always get what you want.

Lisa Brackmann's debut novel ROCK PAPER TIGER, the first title in this series, was a New York Times bestseller and an Amazon Best Book of 2010. It was followed in 2013 by HOUR OF THE RAT. She is also the author of GETAWAY, a thriller set in Mexico that was an Amazon Best Book of the Month and an ALA Summer Reading Pick.