Qiu Xiaolong, Author . Soho $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-369-6
Like its predecessors Death of a Red Heroine
(2000) and A Loyal Character Dancer
(2002), Qiu's third Inspector Chen mystery provides an insightful look into modern China. When Yin Lige, the author of a banned book, is found murdered in her...
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Qiu Xiaolong, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-35985-0
Chinese expatriate Qiu's gripping fourth Inspector Chen novel (after 2004's When Red Is Black
) captures an honest detective's struggle to be true to his professional ideals under a repressive regime. The Communist Party leadership...
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Qiu Xiaolong, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-37107-4
Bringing 1990s Communist China alive, Qiu's masterful fifth Inspector Chen mystery (after 2006's A Case of Two Cities
) finds Shanghai terrorized by its first-ever serial killer. The murderer dresses his victims' corpses in fancy red...
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Qiu Xiaolong, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-312-53874-3
Reviled or revered, the specter of Mao still looms large over contemporary China, as shown in Qiu’s cerebral sixth mystery to feature Chief Insp. Chen Cao (after 2007’s Red Mandarin Dress
). Just how charged that legacy remains becomes...
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Qiu Xiaolong, St. Martin's, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-62809-3
Qiu's (Death of a Red Heroine) latest is a collection of linked stories from the vantage point of the inhabitants of Red Dust Lane in Shanghai depicting China through several tumultuous decades, from 1949 to 2005. Most begin with excerpts from the...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-55064-6
Edgar-finalist Qiu’s enjoyable seventh Inspector Chen novel (after 2009’s The Mao Case) takes the vacationing Shanghai police officer to the exclusive Wuxi Cadre Recreation Center on the shores of Tai Lake, where Chen befriends Shanshan, a female...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-02580-7
The dilemmas of being an ethical cop in a police state have rarely been as neatly delineated as in Qiu’s superb eighth novel featuring Chief Insp. Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau (after 2012’s Don’t Cry, Tai Lake). Chen—a poetry lover and a...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-06527-8
Chinese exile Qiu once again movingly and convincingly portrays the plight of an honest cop in a police state, in his ninth novel featuring Insp. Chen Cao (after 2013’s The Enigma of China). Chen’s life and career (he’s also a poet) have never been...
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Qiu Xiaolong, Author, Qui Xiaolong, Author . Soho $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56947-301-6
Anthony Prize–winner Qiu's second Inspector Chen mystery (after 2000's Death of a Red Heroine)
offers an intriguing if somewhat labored glimpse of Chinese life in a period of evolution from communism to a more westernized culture....
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Qiu Xiaolong, Author, Hsiao-Lung Ch'iu, Author, Xiaolong Qiu, Author Soho Press $25 (400p) ISBN 978-1-56947-193-7
Set a decade ago in Shanghai, this political mystery offers a peek into the tightly sealed, often crooked world of post-Tiananmen Square China. Chen Cao, a poet and T.S. Eliot translator bureaucratically assigned to be chief inspector, has to...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9043-6
Qiu’s outstanding 10th novel featuring Chief Insp. Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau (after 2015’s Shanghai Redemption) finds Chen shelved for vigorously investigating corruption involving high-ranking Communist Party officials. But the capable
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Qiu Xiaolong. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5081-2
Set in seventh-century China, this brilliant series launch from Qiu (the Inspector Chen series) features real-life Dee Renjie (aka Judge Dee), who has just been appointed the Imperial Circuit Supervisor, a post he believes he was given to send him...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Severn House, $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1308-2
Qiu’s vivid second historical mystery featuring judge Dee Renjie (after The Shadow of the Empire) plunges the seventh-century Tang Dynasty sleuth into a politically fraught search for a missing poet. Empress Wu has risen to power from her humble...
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Qiu Xiaolong. Severn House, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1717-2
Qiu’s latest outing for Shanghai police detective Chen Cao (after Love and Murder in the Time of Covid) finds Cao once again taking on totalitarian forces. Chen has been demoted from his post as chief inspector on the Shanghai Police Bureau and...
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