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An Inspector Chen novel
by Qiu Xiaolong
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by Qiu Xiaolong
Published Nov 2022
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by Elsa Hart
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsOn the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
by Lisa Brackmann
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsAmerican Ellie Cooper, deserted by her husband, has made a number of friends in China. But suddenly one of them disappears, and security organizations are hounding her for information. Contacted through an online role-playing game by a group claiming to be friends of Lao Zhang asking her for help, Ellie does the only thing she can - keep on ...
by Yiyun Li
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsIn these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.
by James Church
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsWhen the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Dont look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles. Soon, however, the Inspector discovers he is up to his ears in missiles - and somebody wants him dead.
by Colin Cotterill
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsIn the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village.
by Zoë Ferraris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA novel of taut psychological suspense, offering an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of the men and women who live there.
by Diane Wei Liang
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsThe first novel in an exhilarating new detective series, The Eye of Jade is both a thrilling mystery and fascinating journey through modern China.
by Michael Walters
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsMurder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester.Together with Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, they follow the trail of the dead from the abandoned factories of the city's decaying suburbs to the icy expanse of the barren...
by Benjamin Black
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsIn the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the citys high Catholic society
by Vikram Chandra
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsVikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singhand into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
by John Burdett
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsFrom the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
by Boris Akunin
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsTipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Boris Akunins latest page-turner transports the reader back to the glamorous, dangerous past in a richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas.
by Jonathan Kellerman
Published Apr 2003
Read ReviewsA classic story of good and evil, sacrifice and sin -- a gripping page-turner that illuminates the darkest corridors of the human mind. A stunning tour de force.
by Martin Cruz Smith
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsA dead Russian is followed by the murders of a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated, Arkady cannot be stopped.
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