The Diamond Queen of Singapore
An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years
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Publisher Description
In the latest thrilling novel in the Ava Lee series, Ava launches an investigation into a fraudulent investment scheme that sends her around the globe on the trail of illegal diamonds, drug smuggling, and offshore banking.
Ava and Pang Fai are in Toronto to attend a party at the home of Ava’s mother, Jennie Lee. When Ava’s best friend, Mimi, fails to appear, Ava goes looking for her. She finds Mimi at home, distraught over the death of her father, who has taken his own life after losing the family’s savings in a fraudulent investment scheme. Moved to avenge this tragedy and recover the stolen money, Ava launches an investigation that takes her to cities on three continents.
As she tracks the money, Ava is thrust into the underworld of illegal diamond trading, international drug smuggling, and the world’s most secretive offshore banking haven. Along the way, a number of Ava’s old friends offer their assistance—from her business partner, May Ling Wong, to her ge ge, the Mountain Master of Shanghai, Xu. Most poignant of all, Ava is visited in her dreams by Uncle, who offers her much-needed guidance as she confronts a new face of power and corruption.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Bogus Nigerian princes and all other scammers, beware! This exciting instalment in Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee mystery series finds Canada’s cleverest forensic accountant trying to enjoy a much-deserved sabbatical. But Ava’s downtime is interrupted when the father of her childhood best friend gets taken in by a Ponzi scheme—one that proves not just duplicitous, but deadly. Ava barely has to tug on the strings of the fake investment program before she’s caught up in a jaw-dropping international money-laundering investigation stretching from Canada to Singapore. We just can’t get enough of Ava—a dedicated, fearless investigator who’s also a martial-arts master. Her winning combination of intelligence and grit makes her a joy to follow through this edge-of-your-seat caper. And it’s not all about her—Ava is surrounded by whip-smart contacts, oddball family members, sympathetic crime bosses, and complex villains. Stepping into this quirky world is as thrilling as it is fun.
Customer Reviews
Vintage Ava Lee
Ava Lee at her best! Hamilton spins another winner that twists from Toronto to the Netherlands, to Singapore and then China. Sprinkle in a little Taiwan and some Shanghai magic… seriously good page-turning stuff!