The Couturier of Milan, Ian Hamilton
The Couturier of Milan, Ian Hamilton
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The Couturier of Milan
The Triad Years

Author: Ian Hamilton

Narrator: Grace Kung

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2018

Synopsis

New-World China meets Old-World Italy, as Ava investigates the dark side of the glamourous world of fashion in the latest installment of the Ava Lee Novels.Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters — May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee — have made over the past year. The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. When VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in the company, Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base begins to abandon them.With the help of Xu, Ava uncovers the dark and complex dynamics between East and West in the global fashion industry, eventually leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest crime syndicates.

About Ian Hamilton

Ian Hamilton has had a range of careers over the span of his life, from journalist to diplomat, but it wasn’t until a health scare that he sat down to write his first novel. Ava Lee was the heroine that came to him and so the series was born. Hamilton’s journalism has been featured in Maclean’s and Saturday Night Magazine. He is the author of The Disciple of Las Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, The Red Pole of Macau, and The Water Rat of Wanchai. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife, Lorraine. He has four children and seven grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on February 11, 2017

More than once I have called this series of books about a Chinese-born Canadian my guilty pleasure, but now I wonder why I should feel guilty. Ava Lee is a forensic accountant with deep ties to Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. For several books in the series she investigated improprieties in inte......more

Goodreads review by Skip on January 22, 2019

The Three Sisters and Po's head to London to publicize the PÖ clothing line in a fashion show, and are approached by a luxury brand VLG, who wants to buy the company. When the offer is rebuked, VLG's flashy owner not only trashes the line, but bullies his customers into cancelling orders. Ava Lee he......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on April 02, 2019

I really hope there will be more of Ava in the foreseeable future. This series is way too good to stop reading it anytime soon! Congratulations to Mr. Hamilton on the really good job he has done with his fiction. This one was again excellent! Better than #8 which I just a tad couldn'tget into.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on April 06, 2020

Excellent addition to the Ava Lee series, as Ava is becoming more of an investment partner and less of a "chase down the bad guys" heroine. Ava and her partners are excited to see that the PO fashion line is taking off when they are invited to Milan by a major fashion mogul to discuss working togeth......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 11, 2017

"The Couturier of Milan" by Ian Hamilton was my first encounter with Ava Lee and I found the book to be a quick easy read as we traveled the globe from London to Milan to Hong Kong and got an eyeopening look at the high fashion industry. The book moved very quickly and it did not seem to matter that......more

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