This is an autographed, hardbound first edition copy of "Mandarin Plaid" by noted mystery writer S.J. Rozan. Published in 1996, it features her signature characters, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin.

Ms. Rozan is the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, which have won Edgar, Shamus, Nero, Macavity and Anthony awards, as well as being the author of other books and numerous short stories.

Ms. Rozan also authored "Absent Friends," a novel about post 9/11 New York City, which the Wall Street Journal called "A personal best from suspense novelist S.J. Rozan...Few thrillers so effectively combine historical and imagined deeds in such a moving fashion."

Learn more about Ms. Rozan at www.sjrozan.com