The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Ian Hamilton
The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Ian Hamilton
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan

Author: Ian Hamilton

Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2017

Synopsis

Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.Uncle and Ava are summoned by Wong Changxing, “The Emperor of Hubei” and one of the most powerful men in China, when he discovers that the Fauvist paintings he recently acquired are in fact forgeries.Ava uncovers a ring of fraudulent art dealers and follows their twisted trail to Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Dublin, London, and New York. But the job is further complicated by Wong’s second wife, the cunning and seductive May Ling, who threatens to interfere in Ava’s investigation.Will Ava find the perpetrators and retrieve the Wongs’ money? Or will May Ling get to them first…

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 ☘Misericordia☘ on April 02, 2019

Another adding to this stylish series. I just love with how much detail and thoughtfulness the story goes. Now I'm officially a fan of Ms Ava Lee and Mr Ian Hamilton's writing. Still I can't help myself mentionng a bit of funny idiosyncrasy about this book: Ms Lee is an accountant. This is punctuate......more

Goodreads review by Lance on August 31, 2014

While we're used to cozy mysteries led by such unlikely sleuths as quilters and cats, we usually expect our less-cozy mysteries to have protagonists with more qualifications for the job: cops, ex-cops, PIs, and the like. But there's a growing sub-genre featuring crime-busting accountants. David Dodg......more

Goodreads review by Skip on March 29, 2021

I happen to like this series about Ava Lee, a Canadian forensic accountant of Chinese descent. Her business partner (Uncle) and she visit with a successful businessman in Wuhan to find out that he and his primary wife (#2) have been duped into buying $75 million of forged Fauvist paintings. Ava is a......more

Goodreads review by Trish on July 21, 2012

I am a sucker for this series. I don’t know why it is, but I admit a fascination with the heroine, Ava Lee. I love knowing where she is staying in the capitols of Europe and Asia, what she eats, where she exercises. She is more disciplined than I am, which I admire, and it is interesting to see what......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on January 15, 2019

Book 3 of the Ava Lee series and I still really like her. She is still kick-ass. This time she is tracking art forgers. I'm not big on art so it's interesting to learn about how art are sold and how forgeries could be made. We also see more of her relationship with her family and with Uncle. Some par......more

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