There’s political intrigue aplenty in contemporary China in this Judge Dee-inspired mystery revolving around the 'private kitchens' 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 in 1989 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.
All the titles in the Inspector Chen series, including Hold Your
Breath, China, have been dramatized in BBC Radio 4 productions.
www.qiuxiaolong.com
While series fans will be delighted at the background Qiu provides,
this is an accessible starting point for newcomers ... in his
superior 11th novel featuring Shanghai policeman and poet Chen
Cao
*Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Becoming Inspector
Chen*
Qiu’s stylish hybrid is half fictional literary memoir and half
crisp whodunit
*Kirkus Reviews on Becoming Inspector Chen*
Gripping ... A scathing indictment of contemporary China
*Booklist on Becoming Inspector Chen*
Fans of mysteries about honest cops working for compromised regimes
won’t want to miss this one
*Library Journal Starred Review of Hold your Breath,
China*
Fascinating ... Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about
modern China in another well-crafted mystery
*Booklist Starred Review of Hold Your Breath,
China*
Inspector Chen’s 10th mystery effectively uses the genre to explore
China’s current pollution crisis
*Kirkus Reviews on Hold Your Breath, China*
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