A review by usbsticky
Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limón
4.0
Martin Limon's Sueno and Bascom books are all pretty solid. I started in the middle of the series and read them not in order. I like these books because they're a pretty good character study and I love the depiction of 1970's South Korea. Having said that, none of these books really stand out. They're all pretty solid police procedurals except that the police are US 8th Army CID officers. The whole series reads like a TV series binge. I finish one and go on to the next.
I finally get the first book but this first in the series doesn't do a great job of establishing the setting. It does explain why Sueno and Bascom are in South Korea, but it does it piecemeal in bits and pieces in the middle of the story here and there. I should have expected it as it jibes with how the stories are written.
I finally get the first book but this first in the series doesn't do a great job of establishing the setting. It does explain why Sueno and Bascom are in South Korea, but it does it piecemeal in bits and pieces in the middle of the story here and there. I should have expected it as it jibes with how the stories are written.