description: Seventeen-year-old Marina Lu lies dead in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping centre car park, her two-carat diamond engagement ring refracting another shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her murder merely a carjacking gone bad, or is there more to the story? LA TIMES reporter Eve Diamond is determined to find out. Why was Marina, at such a young age, marrying twenty-four-year-old Michael Ho? Why is her father so reluctant to provide Eve with information about his daughter? And why would someone steal the dead girl's diary? Eve's investigations take her into the world of the 'parachute kids', rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in California while their parents live and work in Hong Kong. She also discovers an even more tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants live in virtual sexual slavery. As Eve unravels the haunting details and closes in on her scoop, she finds that someone is prepared to kill to keep the story hidden.
language: English
title: The Jasmine Trade
titlecomplete: The Jasmine Trade
characters: Eve Diamond
genres: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 466
series: Eve Diamond Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Contemporary Fiction (Finalist)
publisher: Orion Paperbacks