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S.J. Rozan is the author of the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Series including her most recent work, Winter and Night, and the other seven in the series: Reflecting the Sky, Stone Quarry, A Bitter Feast, No Colder Place (winner of the Anthony and nominated for the Shamus Award for Best Novel ), Mandarin Plaid, Concourse (Shamus Award for Best Novel) and China Trade. The series also includes a number of short stories, including "Hoops," a 1997 Edgar nominee. Born and brought up in the Bronx, Rozan is an architect in a New York firm whose practice includes police stations, firehouses, zoo buildings, and the largest terra cotta restoration project in the world. A Knicks fan and a lousy but dogged point guard herself, Rozan has worked as a self-defense instructor, jewelry saleswoman, and janitor. S.J. Rozan runs an on-going series of panels on the subject of "Crime Writing and The American Imagination" at New York's 92nd Street Y. She has a BA from Oberlin College and a M.Arch. from SUNY/Buffalo. She lives in a tiny but sunny apartment in Greenwich Village. Her website is located at http://www.sjrozan.com.
Winter and Night
In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary --- a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past --- both the town's and Bill's own --- threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past.
S.J. Rozan's Summer Reading List
Crazed
by Ha Jin
A story set in provincial China by the National Book Award-winning author.
Samaritan
by Richard Price
This one has been sitting on my desk for 6 months waiting for me.
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
I'd read her laundry list for the beauty of the prose.
Cold Spring
by Rick Riordan
A standalone on one of my hot topics --- teenagers --- by one of my favorite series writers.
Your Mouth is Lovely
by Nancy Richler
I read this in manuscript and loved it --- it's Fiddler on the Roof without the sugarcoating.
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