{"id":22327,"date":"2025-03-13T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:41:23","slug":"robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Cass &#038; Robert Munroe Option Ava Lee Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Cass (<em>The Kindness of Strangers<\/em>, <em>High Life<\/em>) of Cass &amp; Co and Robert Munroe (<em>The Tudors<\/em>, <em>The Borgias<\/em>, <em>Altered Carbon<\/em>) of Blacktop Recess have optioned 17 Ava Lee novels and four Uncle Chow Tung prequel novels from Ian Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s Ava Lee books center on a Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who is a fearless sleuth and a master of the ancient martial art form Bak Mei, historically taught only to males. She uses her skills to outrun and outsmart the most dangerous criminals in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Uncle Chow prequel books center on Ava\u2019s mentor years before he met her.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s books have been printed in eight languages in more than 20 countries and have won or been nominated for various awards, including the Arthur Ellis, the Lambda and the Barry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom my first read of the first novel in the series, Ava firmly implanted herself in my imagination and my heart,\u201d Cass said. \u201cBond is one thing. Ava Lee is quite another! She\u2019s tough, fearless and fantastic! What I love about Ava is that she is her own secret weapon and that no one sees her coming. A spectacular mix of international intrigue, money-sleuthing, amazing martial arts action and spectacular global settings all add up to a heady series cache. She\u2019s everywoman\u2019s superhero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Munroe added, \u201cThis is the most exciting series of dramatic fiction I have read in decades. I started reading <em>The Water Rat of Wanchai<\/em> and was basically incommunicado until I finished <em>The Fury of Beijing<\/em> and then all the Uncle Chow Tung prequels. It\u2019s an engaging, terrific, wild ride that deserves a wide audience! It will be an epic adventure\u2014complex, intriguing storylines that are set in exotic locations. Writers, designers, cinematographers, VFX artists and directors are going to have a field day with this material.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Cass (The Kindness of Strangers, High Life) of Cass &#038; Co and Robert Munroe (The Tudors, The Borgias, Altered Carbon) of Blacktop Recess have optioned 17 Ava Lee novels and four Uncle Chow Tung prequel novels from Ian Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[10357,10356,10358,10359],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blacktop-recess","tag-cass-co","tag-ian-hamilto","tag-ian-hamilton","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robin Cass &amp; Robert Munroe Option Ava Lee Novels - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robin Cass &amp; Robert Munroe Option Ava Lee Novels - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robin Cass (The Kindness of Strangers, High Life) of Cass &amp; Co and Robert Munroe (The Tudors, The Borgias, Altered Carbon) of Blacktop Recess have optioned 17 Ava Lee novels and four Uncle Chow Tung prequel novels from Ian Hamilton.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-13T13:00:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-13T13:41:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/03\/RobinCass-AvaLee-0325.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/\",\"name\":\"Robin Cass & Robert Munroe Option Ava Lee Novels - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-13T13:00:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-13T13:41:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/robin-cass-robert-munroe-option-ava-lee-novels\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Robin Cass &#038; Robert Munroe Option Ava Lee Novels\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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