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| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2020-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448304164 |
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"Fascinating... Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about modern China is another well-crafted mystery" - Booklist Starred Review Inspector Chen is on the case of a serial murderer when he is called away to report on environmentalists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China. Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu Guangming are brought into a serial murder case when the Homicide squad proves incapable of solving it. But before Chen can make a start, he is called away by a high-ranking Party member for a special assignment: to infiltrate a group of environmental activists meeting to discuss the pollution levels in the country and how to prompt the government into action. Chen knows it will be a far from simple task, especially when he discovers the leader of the group is a woman from his past. Meanwhile, Yu is left to investigate a serial murder case on his own. Both Chen and Yu face pressure from those above to resolve the cases in a satisfactory way . . . even if that means innocents face the punishment.
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780727890436 |
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Chief Inspector Chen is assigned to investigate a group of environmental activists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China. The case is supposed to be simple, but it is complicated by Chen having history with the leader of the group. Meanwhile Detective Yu is on the trail of a serial murderer.
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2021-02-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448304911 |
Download Becoming Inspector Chen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his past hold a clue to the poetry case? After a number of grueling cases Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his loyalties lie. What's more, he is excluded from an investigation into an incendiary poem posted on an online forum. Wracked with self-doubt and facing an anxious wait to discover the fate of his career, Chen is left to reflect on the events that have led to where he is now - from his amateur investigations as a child during the Cultural Revolution, to his very first case on the Shanghai Police Force. Has fighting for the Chinese people and the morals he believes in put him in conflict with the Party? Why is he being kept away from the new case? As well as his career, is his life now also at risk?
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012-05-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429973544 |
Download Don't Cry, Tai Lake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two Cities Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its clear waters, is now covered by fetid algae, its waters polluted by toxic runoff from local manufacturing plants. Then the director of one of the manufacturing plants responsible for the pollution is murdered and the leader of the local ecological group is the primary suspect of the local police. Now Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and find a measure of justice for both the victim and the accused.
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2021-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448305543 |
Download Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chen Cao has been removed from his chief inspector role, but that doesn’t stop him investigating a ‘private kitchen’ murder that has similarities to a Judge Dee story. No longer a chief inspector, Chen Cao finds himself as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office. To outsiders it’s a promotion, but Chen knows he’s being removed from the spotlight as he’s immediately placed on involuntary ‘convalescence leave’ to stop him interfering with any cases. However, with various high-profile crimes making headlines and fears escalating over vigilante reprisals, Chen’s superiors know he must at least appear active. One case revolves around Min Lihau, a mingyuan, who runs a ‘private kitchen’ for powerful figures in Shanghai. Min’s accused of murdering her assistant, yet Chen is struck by its similarities to a historic case involving the famous Judge Dee. When an acquaintance of his is murdered in connection with Min, Chen knows he can’t stand idly by . . . but he must act in secret, under the cover of writing a Judge Dee novel.
| Author | : Claire Huchet Bishop |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Brothers |
| ISBN | : 9781404602915 |
Download The Five Chinese Brothers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities.
| Author | : Te-Ping Chen |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0358272556 |
Download Land of Big Numbers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Soho Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2003-07-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1569476969 |
Download Death of a Red Heroine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A TIME “100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time” Meet Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police in this “refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller” (Huffington Post). “A matchless pearl.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.
| Author | : Qiu Xiaolong |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2022-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448307384 |
Download The Shadow of the Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Brilliant' –Publishers Weekly Starred Review The legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder set in seventh-century China. Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu's newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the grand capital of Chang'an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: 'A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!' Minutes after the ominous warning appears, Judge Dee is approached by an emissary of Internal Minister Wu, Empress Wu's nephew. Minister Wu wants Judge Dee to investigate a high-profile murder supposedly committed by the well-known poetess and courtesan, Xuanji, who locals believe is possessed by the spirit of a black fox. Why is Minister Wu interested in Xuanji? Despite Xuanji confessing to the murder, is there more to the case than first appears? With the mysterious warning and a fierce power struggle playing out at the imperial court, Judge Dee knows he must tread carefully . . .
| Author | : Sigrid Nunez |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2005-12-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429944943 |
Download A Feather on the Breath of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
