The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed

The Dead Can't Make a Living

"A unique blend of tension, charm, tragedy, and optimism, with characters you'll love and a setting so...
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Author: Ed Lin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed

The Dead Can't Make a Living

$89.99 $47.29
The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed

The Dead Can't Make a Living

$89.99 $47.29
Author: Ed Lin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
"A unique blend of tension, charm, tragedy, and optimism, with characters you'll love and a setting so real you'll think you've been there. Highly recommended."--Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series

Ed Lin's big-hearted, eye-opening fifth installment in the fan-favorite Taipei Night Market series

Jing-nan, the owner of the most popular food stand in Taipei's world-famous Shilin night market, is hauling trash after a successful evening of hawking Taiwanese delicacies to tourists when he finds a corpse propped up against the dumpsters. The dead man turns out to be Juan Ramos, a Philippine national who came to Taiwan for a job at a massive ZHD food processing plant.

Jing-nan is haunted by Ramos's story, and by the heartbreak of his family, who arrive in Taipei looking for answers. ZHD has a history of safety violations, and activists have a hunch Ramos's death might be part of a cover-up. Meanwhile, Jingnan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, has his own mysterious, probably illegal, reasons for being concerned about what's going on in ZHD. He pressures Jing-nan into a daring and risky mission: going undercover as a migrant laborer to get a job at the food processing plant and reporting back about the conditions inside. Jing-nan hopes to find out the truth for the Ramos family, and to save other immigrant lives--but first he has to survive the spy operation.

This rollicking crime novel is a scorching, timely examination of our global dependence on undocumented immigrants.

Author: Ed Lin
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781641297240


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2026
Foreword 02/18/2026
Booklist 03/01/2026
Library Journal 03/13/2026 pg. 1

About the Author
Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He's the author of four other novels in the Taipei Night Market series: Ghost Month, Incensed, 99 Ways to Die, and Death Doesn't Forget as well as five other novels. Lin, who is of Chinese and Taiwanese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. He lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and son.
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