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THE MAYORS OF NEW YORK

S.J. Rozan

The new crime novel from the award-winning S. J. Rozan, wherein private investigators Lydia Chin and Bill Smith find themselves thrust into the mystery behind the disappearance of the teenage son of the mayor of New York.
In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor's chief aide - a former girlfriend of private investigator Bill Smith's - to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he's missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. But as Bill and Lydia investigate, they turn up more questions than answers. Why did the boy leave? Who else is searching for him, and why? What is his twin sister hiding? Then a teen is found dead and another is hit by gunfire. Are these tragedies related to each other, and to the mayor's missing son? In a desperate attempt to find the answer to the boy's disappearance before it's too late, Bill and Lydia turn to the only contacts they think will be able to help: the neighborhood leaders who are the real 'mayors' of New York. S. J. Rozan is the author of Family Business, The Art of Violence, Paper Son, and many other crime novels. She has won multiple awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, Macavity, the Japanese Maltese Falcon, and the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Published 2023-12-05 by Pegasus Crime

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Audio/Blackstone ; Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha (Paperback/Harlequin)

Rozan allows the Big Apple to shine by depicting its diversity, from Chinatown to upscale enclaves in the Bronx. The characterizations are brilliant, and Bill's voice narrating is a total delight.

S.J. Rozan has won the Edgar, the Shamus, the Anthony, the Nero, the Macavity, the Japanese Maltese Falcon, and the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award