Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans-tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance-have new plans for the area. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet.īut as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. (Apr.Enter to win 1 of 5 finished copies of DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA by Rita Chang-Eppig!įor readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. Heavy-handed foreshadowing (“Had Jack looked at the plane tree where he had been standing moments earlier, he would have seen he was wrong in thinking that no one was watching him”) is a drawback. Jack, who has the annoying habit of reciting childish rhymes, was supervising a novice train engineer on a neighboring track, but didn’t see anything helpful.
Her inquiries are aided by the convenient coincidence that Rick’s death was witnessed by her friend and partner in detection, Jack Harmon. William is convinced someone pushed his brother, and Stella agrees to help find the culprit.
Stella, who works for the London-based Clean Slate, is approached by William Frost, who’s heard that “apart from cleaning, solves murders.” William’s brother, Rick, died a month earlier after supposedly jumping in front of an Underground train, a clear case of suicide according to the authorities.
Thomson’s third book featuring professional cleaner and amateur sleuth Stella Darnell (after Ghost Girl) is less successful than its predecessors in making her detecting plausible.
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