Dragon Day / An Ellie McEnroe Investigation (ePub)

A Seattle Times Best Mystery of 2015

“Excellent . . . Ellie McEnroe, our guide, is a piece of work: an expatriate American veteran of Iraq with a bad leg and a worse attitude . . . Brackmann is terrific at evoking both the glitz of modern high-society China and Ellie’s hand-to-mouth existence in some of Beijing’s less reputable corners." —The Seattle Times

"Edgy . . . When Ellie becomes a convenient murder suspect—her business card is found on the body of a waitress at a party—she must navigate China’s elite and their kids, plus corruption on every level, to find the real culprit." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Spot-on modern China noir and brushstroke-perfect descriptions of the new China make Brackmann’s series a pleasure to read. Her writing is crisp, vivid, and masterful." —Barry Lancet, writing for The Strand Magazine

"As soon as I read the opening lines of Lisa Brackmann’s new China-set crime thriller, Dragon Day, I knew I was going to enjoy it every bit as much as I had anticipated. At initial glance, the book indulges in the two ultimate China clichés—that 'dragon' title and its red cover—but with those first four sentences, Brackmann delivers a big wink to her readers: Don’t worry. You might think you know what’s coming, but you have no idea." —Los Angeles Review of Books

"Like a bullet-train tour of daily life in China, one vignette after another, sometimes verging on poetry." —Salem Macknee, McClatchy News 

"Set in China, Brackmann always manages to keep you on the edge of your seat and teach you something about that country at the same time. Not to be missed." —Huffington Post 

"The sensation of a society in constant flux underpins the action and makes for great excitement."  —The Crime Review