Jade Lady Burning (A Sergeants Sueno and Bascomb Novel Book 1) By Martin Limon

244 Pages
Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press
Release Date: October 4, 2011

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Sex Workers, Korea

It has been almost twenty years since the end of the Korean War. Sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom are Military Police in Korea and are assigned a gruesome case. A woman is brutally tortured and burned in an apartment. They have little evidence and not much information from neighbors. The only lead they have is it was her American boyfriend.

The book has a steady pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the first-person point of view. If you like military police stories, you may enjoy this one.

This was an interesting military procedural and I learned much about South Korea. The story is gritty, but well told.
Many thanks to Soho Press and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I am reading everything I can find by this author now. The book was well paced and I enjoyed the protagonist very much. Will be looking forward to more in this series.

Do you like to read about other countries? How about a murder mystery or maybe about the Army? If any of these hold your interest, you will get all of them in this book.

Two Army police are tasked to investigate a murder of a prostitute in Korea where they are stationed because the murder is believed to be her American boyfriend. The story gives the background history of the men and the prostitute that was murdered so the story goes from present to past and back to the present.

You get a feel for the 1970’s culture of Korea and how the Army worked 20 years after the Korean War ended.