The Butcher's Granddaughter
"Readers who like gritty, hard-boiled yarns will welcome Michael Lion's THE BUTCHER'S GRANDDAUGHTER. The fast action and twisting plot features 'Bird,' and information-broker drawn into a Chinese puzzle of Asian gangs, human greed, and casual death. It's a fine debut for Lion and for his protagonist who is in love with 'the smog and the garbage and the poverty and the traffic and the noise' of the underside of Los Angeles. L.A noir hasn't been done any better."  --Rex Burns, Egar Award-winning author of THE LEANING LAND