Black Jade

By: Gloria Oliver

British elites, American snobs, and a murder. Can a blind Chinese young woman and her friends ferret out the killer?

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A curious lack of corpses. A slew of snobbish suspects. Can this sightless amateur sleuth pinpoint a killer?

Dallas, TX, 1930. Daiyu Wu refuses to be lessened by her blindness. Navigating the world with help from her faithful companions, the young Chinese adventuress celebrates life with a strong thirst for knowledge. So when she smells burned garlic in a customer’s garment, the clever laundress runs an experiment that reveals the dress was imbued with arsenic.

Determined to provide the unaware authorities with a clue in the murder case, Daiyu vows to chase down the garment’s mysterious origins even though there have been no reports of a body. But as the links lead the immigrant girl higher into Texas’s social echelons, she clashes with bigotry, short-sightedness, and a web of lies hamstringing her ability to investigate.

Can she find fresh evidence before she’s hung out to dry?

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