Two bundles of books by Ian Hamilton are available which comprise the entire (to date) Ava Lee mystery/thriller series. Both bundles are couponable in the Kobo Canada store - I just tried with a lower value coupon just now, and the coupon was accepted, although I didn't actually purchase. So hopefully they might be couponable with a higher value coupon from the next contest.
I have read the first two books in this series, and although thriller-ish mysteries aren't usually my thing, I enjoyed these enough to buy the rest of the series if a good coupon comes along again.
The first bundle contains a prequel and the first two books; the second bundle contains books 3 - 5.
The Ava Lee Series Bundle 1
The Water Rat of Wanchai: Book 1,
The Disciple of Las Vegas: Book 2, and
The Dragon Head of Hong Kong: The Ava Lee Prequel
House of Anansi Press Inc, December 2013
Imprint: Spiderline
ISBN: 9781770898271
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First of 2 exclusive bundles, including books 1 and 2 of the wildly popular Ava Lee Series plus the never before published prequel.
This bundle includes:
In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it’s in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava’s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . . .
In The Disciple of Las Vegas, forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million from a Canadian land swindle. With the billionaire’s reputation on the line, she follows the money from Vancouver to Las Vegas, to the Costa Rican accounts of the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns The River, a poker web site.
After uncovering an illegal online gambling ring, she confronts one of the world poker greats, David “The Disciple” Douglas, and his partner, Jeremy Ashton. Meanwhile, Jackie Leung, an old target of Uncle’s and Ava’s, has made it rich. He wants revenge, and he’s going after Ava to get it.
Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. In The Dragon Head of Hong Kong, we follow Ava as she she plunges into the dangerous underground collection business and meets a man who will forever change her life . . .
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The Ava Lee Series Bundle 2
The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: Book 3,
The Red Pole of Macau: Book 4,
The Scottish Banker of Surabaya: Book 5
House of Anansi Press Inc, December 2013
Imprint: Spiderline
ISBN: 9781770898295
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Exclusive bundle of books 3, 4, and 5 in the wildly popular Ava Lee series.
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In The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, 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 get the Wongs’ money back? Or will May Ling get to them first . . .
In The Red Pole of Macau, Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull out of a multi-million-dollar real estate deal in the territory of Macau. The developers are threatening to halt construction unless Michael and his business partner put up another $80 million; the bank is looking for repayment on their loan; and her father is prepared to sell everything to protect his first-born son. As Ava follows the money trail, she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into Hong Kong’s dark and deadly world of organized crime.
In the fifth installment, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya, Ava begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a Scot, but in actuality is a front for an elaborate money-laundering operation for Italian mobsters. The relationship between Ava and the Scotsman turns nasty and personal. Meanwhile, Uncle’s health problems become apparent . . .
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