A Loyal Character Dancer (Hardcover)

from hotchk155

Chief Inspector Chen, rising star of the Shanghai police, is assigned to assist a female US Marshall who has come to China to escort a witness in a triad human-smuggling case to join her husband under witness protection in the US. Only its not that simple... The plotting is very good (though a fe...

from gilly1944

Another excellent Inspector Chen novel. Full of atmosphere, intrigue and politics. Great characters, a good plot and interesting Chinese setting.

from whitewavedarling

This is the second in Xiaolong's Detective Chen series, and you can see the difference--this second installment is much more balanced, so that the few things which got on my nerves in the first book, much as I loved it, have been dialed back in favor of a more involved mystery. It also builds on ...

from DrLed

Synopsis: Once again Investigator Chen has to work around the bureaucracy to solve a murder and what appears to be a gangland kidnapping threat. Working with a woman from the US Marshal's office, he has to find a woman who is to meet her husband in the States so that he will testify about gang ac...

from TadAD

This was OK but it didn't appeal to me as much as the first book in the series. Other than Inspector Chen, the characters felt flatter. This was most noticeable in the relationship between Chen and Inspector Rohn—I never got any real sense of the romantic tension that the book was claiming ...