the Fourth Compelling Story In Pip Granger’s Acclaimed Soho Series Featuring Nine-year-old Rosie And A Fascinating Cast Of Characters From 1950s Soho. Peace, A Young Chinese Girl, Has Run Away From Boarding School And Come To Live With Lizzy, A Heart-warming New Character Destined For Adventure And Romance.
publishers Weekly the Follow-up To Trouble In Paradise Finds The Center Of Granger's Working-class World Moving From London's East End To The Bohemian Soho Of 1956. Lizzie Robbins, Estranged From Her Husband, Abruptly Assumes Care For A Chinese Girl With Cloudy Parentage Called Peace. When The Conscientious Peace Vanishes, Lizzie And Her Neighbors Fear She Has Been Kidnapped, And To Solve The Crime Must Delve Into London's Chinese Community And The Stranglehold Of Its Gangsters And Triads. In Contrast To Paradise, This Novel Deals With A Single Major Crime And, With An Adult Narrator Driving The Plot, Explores Issues Of Sex And Marriage. Granger's Strong Narrative Voice And The Tug Of Community, Of Characters Readers Can Care About Instantaneously, Give This Book Its Force And Charm. As Always, Granger Writes About Outsiders-cross-dressers, Clairvoyants, Petty Cons-with Utter Warmth And Not A Trace Of Condescension. There's No Parade Of Bodies, None Of The Perverse Genius Of Ruth Rendell Or The Public School Sorts Populating Elizabeth George, Just Characters And Unforgettable Community. (jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Pip Granger

United States, United States of America

1st U.S. ed, Scottsgale, AZ, ©2006

1st U.S. ed., Scottsgale, AZ, 2005

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subject: Soho (London, England); Missing persons; Chinese

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Prologue
2. (p2) Chapter One
3. (p3) Chapter Two
4. (p4) Chapter Three
5. (p5) Chapter Four
6. (p6) Chapter Five
7. (p7) Chapter Six
8. (p8) Chapter Seven
9. (p9) Chapter Eight
10. (p10) Chapter Nine
11. (p11) Chapter Ten
12. (p12) Chapter Eleven
13. (p13) Chapter Twelve
14. (p14) Chapter Thirteen
15. (p15) Chapter Fourteen
16. (p16) Chapter Fifteen
17. (p17) Chapter Sixteen
18. (p18) Chapter Seventeen
19. (p19) Chapter Eighteen
20. (p20) Chapter Nineteen
21. (p21) Chapter Twenty
22. (p22) Chapter Twenty-one
23. (p23) Chapter Twenty-two
24. (p24) Chapter Twenty-three
25. (p25) Chapter Twenty-four
26. (p26) Chapter Twenty-five
27. (p27) Chapter Twenty-six
28. (p28) Chapter Twenty-seven
29. (p29) Chapter Twenty-eight
30. (p30) Chapter Twenty-nine
31. (p31) Chapter Thirty
32. (p32) Chapter Thirty-one
33. (p33) Chapter Thirty-two
34. (p34) Chapter Thirty-three
35. (p35) Chapter Thirty-four
36. (p36) Chapter Thirty-five
37. (p37) Chapter Thirty-six
38. (p38) Chapter Thirty-seven
39. (p39) Chapter Thirty-eight
40. (p40) Chapter Thirty-nine
41. (p41) Chapter Forty
42. (p42) Chapter Forty-one
43. (p43) Chapter Forty-two
44. (p44) Chapter Forty-three
45. (p45) Chapter Forty-four
46. (p46) Chapter Forty-five
47. (p47) Author's Note

theme: Soho (London, England); Missing persons; Chinese

It is 1956, and Lizzy is working in Soho when Peace comes to stay. Peace is a beautiful sixteen-year-old part-Chinese girl, the daughterit turns outof her employer Bandy Bunion's estranged sister. Peace has been at a boarding school in the countrybut, tired of feeling lonely and of being bullied, she has run away, and does not intend to go back. Lizzy, who lives above the nightclub run by Bandy and Sugarplum Flaherty, offers to take her in; she lost her own daughterRosie's best friendto leukemia two years previously and she feels a special bond with Peace. Life, Lizzy also feels, has been rather too quiet recently; but things are about to change dramatically. Bandy has got a new man in her lifea crook for certain, Lizzy thinks, especially when Bandy's valuables start to go missing. And Lizzy's got a new man, too. TC is Rosie's dad and everyone's favorite policeman. But is he interested in her
But when Peace goes missing a second time, and no one knows where she's gone, it looks as though there's only one thing to do. Lizzy asks TC to help her find Peace, and the first place they must visit is the seedy dock area in Limehouse. The home of the Chinese community, it's a very dangerous place indeed....

In 1956, Lizzy, who lives above the Soho nightclub run by Bandy and Sugarplum Flaherty, offers to take in her employer's part-Chinese teenage niece, a decision that is complicated by the young girl's disappearance and by the possible crook who is romancing Bandy.

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