CHINESE NEW YEAR CRIME FICTION

恭賀發財 Gung Hay Fat Choy! This is the Year of the Snake.

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, I've updated my list of mysteries that take place during Lunar New Year Celebrations. As always, I welcome any additions. I'd like to include more Asian New Year Crime Fiction, so please send author/titles.

CHINESE NEW YEAR MYSTERIES

The Corpses Hanging Over Paris by Cathy Ace

The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
Between a Wok and a Hard Place by Leslie Budewitz

Year of the Dog by Henry Chang 
Peking Duck and Cover by Vivien Chien

Year of the Dragon by Robert Daley 
Serpent's Doom by Connie di Marco

Neon Dragon by John Dobbyn
Dim Sum Dead by Jerrilyn Farmer 
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Murder on Bamboo Lane by Naomi Hirahara

Chop Suey by Ty Hutchison 
The Skull Cage Key by Michael Marriott
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley

Breezy Friends and Bodies: A Raina Sun Mystery by Anne R. Tan
The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik (7th Century China) "New Year's Eve in Lan-Fang"

 Children and Young Adult:

The Nancy Drew Notebooks: The Chinese New Year Mystery by Carolyn Keene
The New Year Dragon Dilemma by Ron Roy 
Red Envelope Mystery: The Secret of the Chinese New Year. 

Short stories:

 "The Lady Fish Mystery" by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, EQMM, September/October 1996.
"Murder Keeps No Calendar" by Cathy Ace.
 

Mystery in Asia: Mystery Readers Journal

恭賀發財 Gung Hay Fat Choy! This is the Year of the Rabbit. To celebrate the Chinese New Year, read Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in Asia (Volume 34: 3: 2018). Below is the Table of Contents, as well as some sample articles from Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in Asia.  

Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadable PDF.

MYSTERY IN ASIA: MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL (34:3)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Judge Dee: a Look at Van Gulik’s Chinese Master Detective by Michael Kurland
• Ethel Proudlock and the Murder of William Steward by Roberta Rood
• A Yen for Mystery: Four Japanese Women by John Apostolou
• Flatfoots in the Far East by Jim Doherty

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• White House Travel and Intrigue in Asia by Karna Small Bodman
• Panic and Desperation in Hong Kong by Susan Blumberg-Kason
• The Apothecary Shop by Laura Boss
• The East Is Different by John Burdett
• Digging into the Thai Underbelly by Colin Cotterill
• The Crimson Masquerade by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson
• The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
• Writing the Past by Dale Furutani
• Armchair-Traveling in China by Chris Goff
• Darkness in the Land of Smiles by Timothy Hallinan
• Murder at the Grand Raj Palace: Why Crime Writers Love a Good Hotel by Vaseem Khan
• From the Mountain to the City by Elsa Hart
• Talking Story—Japan by Barry Lancet
• Mysteries of the Orient by Joan K. Lacy
• Prawns in the Game by Ed Lin
• Murder, Money and Music in Hong Kong by Charles Philipp Martin
• Adventures in South Korea by J. R. Lindermuth
• Noodle in a Haystack by Saul Maskell
• One Morning in Mumbai by Sujata Massey
• The World of Vincent Calvino, P.I., Bangkok by Christopher G. Moore
• Some Notes From a Long, Strange Journey by Jake Needham
• Up Like Thunder by Colin T. Nelson
• Murder and Mayhem in Imperial Japan by I.J. Parker
• It’s Good to Be Thought Stupid by 22 Million People by David Rotenberg
• Tokyo—Stories, Culture, Murder by Michael Pronko
• China, Korea, Macao, Hong Kong and the Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian
• Sumatra: Perfect Scene For A Crime by Nancy Raven Smith
• Art Leads to Mystery in Southeast Asia by Nancy Tingley
• Durian Days by Ovidia Yu

COLUMNS

• Murder in Retrospect: Reviews by L.J. Roberts, Craig Sisterson, Jonathan Woods, Lesa Holstine, and Tuhin Giri
• The Children’s Hour: Mystery in Asia by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Crime Seen: Sherlock in Japan by Kate Derie
• Real Crime in East Asia by Cathy Pickens
• A Personal Overview of Asian Mysteries by Thom Walls
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

Want to read books set during Chinese New Year? Here's a link to a list of Lunar New Year Mysteries. 

MYSTERY IN ASIA: Mystery Readers Journal (34:3)

The third issue of Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in Asia (Volume 34: 3) is available now as a PDF and will be shortly available in hardcopy. Subscriber copies have been mailed. Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadable PDF.

Below is the Table of Contents, as well as some sample articles from the new issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Judge Dee: a Look at Van Gulik’s Chinese Master Detective by Michael Kurland
• Ethel Proudlock and the Murder of William Steward by Roberta Rood
• A Yen for Mystery: Four Japanese Women by John Apostolou
• Flatfoots in the Far East by Jim Doherty

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• White House Travel and Intrigue in Asia by Karna Small Bodman
• Panic and Desperation in Hong Kong by Susan Blumberg-Kason
• The Apothecary Shop by Laura Boss
• The East Is Different by John Burdett
• Digging into the Thai Underbelly by Colin Cotterill
• The Crimson Masquerade by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson
• The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
• Writing the Past by Dale Furutani
• Armchair-Traveling in China by Chris Goff
• Darkness in the Land of Smiles by Timothy Hallinan
• Murder at the Grand Raj Palace: Why Crime Writers Love a Good Hotel by Vaseem Khan
• From the Mountain to the City by Elsa Hart
• Talking Story—Japan by Barry Lancet
• Mysteries of the Orient by Joan K. Lacy
• Prawns in the Game by Ed Lin
• Murder, Money and Music in Hong Kong by Charles Philipp Martin
• Adventures in South Korea by J. R. Lindermuth
• Noodle in a Haystack by Saul Maskell
• One Morning in Mumbai by Sujata Massey
• The World of Vincent Calvino, P.I., Bangkok by Christopher G. Moore
• Some Notes From a Long, Strange Journey by Jake Needham
• Up Like Thunder by Colin T. Nelson
• Murder and Mayhem in Imperial Japan by I.J. Parker
• It’s Good to Be Thought Stupid by 22 Million People by David Rotenberg
• Tokyo—Stories, Culture, Murder by Michael Pronko
• China, Korea, Macao, Hong Kong and the Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian
• Sumatra: Perfect Scene For A Crime by Nancy Raven Smith
• Art Leads to Mystery in Southeast Asia by Nancy Tingley
• Durian Days by Ovidia Yu

COLUMNS

• Murder in Retrospect: Reviews by L.J. Roberts, Craig Sisterson, Jonathan Woods, Lesa Holstine, and Tuhin Giri
• The Children’s Hour: Mystery in Asia by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Crime Seen: Sherlock in Japan by Kate Derie
• Real Crime in East Asia by Cathy Pickens
• A Personal Overview of Asian Mysteries by Thom Walls
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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Mystery Readers Journal Call for Articles: Murder in the Far East

CALL FOR ARTICLES: Murder in the Far East

The next issue of Mystery Readers Journal (Volume 34:3) will focus on mysteries that take place in the Far East.

We're looking for Reviews, Articles, and Author! Author! essays.

Reviews: 50-250 words
Articles: 250-1000 words
Author! Author! essays: 500-1500 words. Author essays are first person, about yourself, your books, and the 'Far East' connection. Think of it as chatting with friends and other writers in the bar or cafe about your work and your Asian/Far East connection. Add title and 2-3 sentence bio/tagline.

Deadline: October 10.
Send to: Janet Rudolph, Editor. janet @ mysteryreaders . org

Please forward this request to anyone you think should be included.

SUBSCRIBE TO MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL
2018: Gardening Mysteries; Murder in the Far East; Spies & Special Agents; Crime Fiction in the American South )
Many Back Issues of Mystery Readers Journal are available as single copies in Hardcopy or PDF. 

Call for Articles for 2018 (Volume 34):
Murder in the Far East; Crime Fiction in the American South;
2019: Murder Down Under.

Have titles, articles or suggestions for these upcoming issues? Want to write an Author! Author! essay? email Janet Rudolph  ( janet @ mysteryreaders . org )