Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her to track down a rumour. The rumour of new paintings by Chau Chun, known as the Ghost Hero, is shaking up the art world. There’s only one problem - Ghost Hero Chau has been dead for twenty years, killed in the 1989 Tianamen Square uprising. But not only is the artist ong dead, but Lydia’s client isn’t who he claims to be either. And she’s not the only PI hired to look for these paintings. Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, soon learn that someone else - Jack Lee: PI, art expert, and, like Lydia, American Born Chinese - is also on the case. What starts as rumours over new paintings by a dead artist quickly becomes something far more desperate and high stakes…