chinatown mystery novel

now I'm going to say this it's not horrible but the editing could really use some work like when he's talking about a place in Chinatown he calls it flushing for a couple of chapters I didn't even know flushing was a place let alone it being in Chinatown some editing would do wonders for the story

I am just writing this for exp... So the following is just a paragraph and a half from the first tab I saw when I opened my browser... In “White Dragon,” new to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, the hero is a London university lecturer named Jonah Mulray. Since the show is a dark, complicated, tortured-family mystery set in Hong Kong, his name can’t help but call to mind the neo-noir touchstone “Chinatown” and its doomed Mulwrays. The connection lurks in the back of your mind, where you think, no, they can’t really be asking for the comparison. But then in the fifth of the mini-series’s eight episodes, another character tells Jonah he needs to temper his expectations

🎵Everybody was kung-fu fighting Those kicks were fast as lightning In fact it was a little bit frightening But they fought with expert timing🎵 🎶They were funky China men from funky Chinatown They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down It's an ancient Chinese art and everybody knew their part From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip🎶

A story that is definitely in the top five fish-related novels on the site. Never skip the translator notes, as they are the highlights of each chapter. The worldbuilding is amazing as well - take a look at this example "After remolding goldfish hundreds of times, Chu Xian became quite good at it. It only took him three minutes to finish with one goldfish. Over two thousand goldfish should take more than six thousand minutes, equivalent to about a hundred hours. In the span of two days, Chu Xian remolded every single goldfish – the approximately 1500 ***** goldfish were ready to be sold, and the 700 or so babies were all reformed as a mask for his real operation." While in a pseudo-familiar modern world, the author constantly slips in information to tell the reader that everything is not as familiar as it seems. The fifty hour days result in a world that's familiar, but not too familiar, but not too not familiar. The level of research and worldbuilding is astounding as well - take a look at this section on his setting's equivalent of Chinatown. It's like you're stepping into a portal and seeing it firsthand. "Chu Xian got into a car and went to the Chinatown in New York. Chinatown was where Chinese Americans hung out in America, and 99% of the people there were Chinese. The streets decorated with Chinese things and the Chinese restaurants lining the sides of the streets gave Chu Xian a cozy feeling." And, while the update speed has been irritating fast recently, I won't take off stars for that.

Mystery mystery mystery.... That's what I get from this novel. Added by the horror part. It becomes a recipe for my favorite genre. I just hope for more update from this novel.