A tense political mystery set in the heart of Shanghai.
Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a PhD degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy he stayed on in St Louis where he still lives with his wife. Qiu's sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry.
Fascinating . Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about
modern China in another well-crafted mystery
*Booklist Starred Review*
Outstanding . Qiu's execution matches his ambition. Fans of
mysteries about honest cops working for compromised regimes won't
want to miss this one
*Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
Inspector Chen's 10th mystery effectively uses the genre to explore
China's current pollution crisis
*Kirkus Reviews*
Another superb entry in an always-outstanding series
*Booklist Starred Review of Shanghai
Redemption*
Qiu once again movingly and convincingly portrays the plight of an
honest cop in a police state ... The suspense is palpable, and Qiu
gives readers a chilling vision of life under authoritarian
rule
*Publishers Weekly on Shanghai
Redemption*
A complex, methodical police procedural as well as a multifaceted
look at a powerful society in flux
*Kirkus Reviews on Shanghai
Redemption*
Highly recommended for anyone interested in contemporary China
*Library Journal on Shanghai
Redemption*
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