Death Doesnt Forget, Ed Lin
Death Doesnt Forget, Ed Lin
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Death Doesn't Forget

Author: Ed Lin

Narrator: Ewan Chung

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

Taipei is rocked by the back-to-back murders of a recent lottery winner and a police captain just as the city is preparing to host the big Austronesian Cultural Festival, which has brought in indigenous performers from all around the Pacific
Rim to the island nation of Taiwan. Jing-nan, the proprietor of Unknown Pleasures, a popular food stand at Taipei’s largest night market, is thrown into the intrigue. Is he being set up to take the rap, or will he be the next victim? The
fallout could jeopardize Jing-nan’s relationship with his girlfriend, Nancy, who is herself soon caught up in the drama, and is increasingly annoyed at Jing-nan’s failure to propose to her.

Jing-nan also has to be careful not to alienate his trusty workers Dwayne and Frankie the Cat, who are facing their own personal trials. Dwayne struggles to reconnect with his roots as a person of aboriginal descent, while septuagenarian
Frankie helps a fellow veteran with dementia, intertwining stories that illuminate decades of Taiwanese history.

Jing-nan, meanwhile, has to untangle the mystery of the killings while keeping his food stall afloat against hip new competition. Both his life, and his Instagram follower count, hang in the balance.

About Ed Lin

Ed Lin is a journalist by training and the author of the Taipei Night Market series: Ghost Month, Incensed, and 99 Ways to Die; his literary debut, Waylaid; and the Robert Chow crime series set in 1970s Manhattan Chinatown. He is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent and is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on April 29, 2022

My thanks to both NetGalley and Soho Press for an advanced copy of mystery featuring both food and Taiwan. A good mystery series need quite a few things to keep readers coming back for more. A lead character that is engaging and a person the reader wants to spend time with. A cast of characters that......more

Goodreads review by Abby on June 22, 2022

This book jumps between different points of view for all of the characters while they try to navigate family, work, and the murders of those around them. Set in Taiwan, an unconventional group of family and friends try to solve a few murders that the police cannot. The way this book moves from chara......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on September 21, 2023

Fantastic. A series highlight centered on how our past impact our present. I thoroughly enjoyed entering the minds of Frankie the Cat and Dwayne. The night market crew have become friends to me as I've listened to the audiobook editions. I do wish Peggy Lee meddled her way more in this one!......more

Goodreads review by Suzesmum on December 02, 2022

151 🎧🇹🇼TAIWAN 🇹🇼The third book in the series I have listened to (and actually the 4th), and I feel like the author has run out of steam. The “crime” isthe murder of Boxer, the thieving boyfriend of our hero, Jinang’s girlfriend’s (Nancy) estranged mother (Sulin). Basically, Sulinis a washed up “ente......more

Goodreads review by Harvee on July 06, 2022

Jing-nan, popular owner of a night market food stall in the capital of Taiwan, Taipei, and his girlfriend Nancy, are the main characters in the continuation of the mystery series. The mystery in the murder of not one, but two individuals, cast shadows over Jing-nan, who must act as a sleuth to clear......more