Mort D'Une H'Rone Rouge. Une Enqute de L'Inspecteur Chen (Paperback)

from crzyern

My tastes tend to the more classical mysteries , and I veer away from procedurals as a rule. But there was something that captivated me when I picked this book up. I read a page or two, than a couple more and a couple more. Before I knew it even with a full days work I zipped through the book in ...

from msprint

It took me quite a while to get used to the writing style, however, by the time I finished I realised I had enjoyed the slow unfolding of the story along with the setbacks suffered by Chen and his sidekick Yu. The political intrigue was very interesting and by the time I finished the book I was g...

from msprint

It took me quite a while to get used to the writing style, however, by the time I finished I realised I had enjoyed the slow unfolding of the story along with the setbacks suffered by Chen and his sidekick Yu. The political intrigue was very interesting and by the time I finished the book I was g...

from kewing

The late 1980s and early 1990s was a chaotic time in China and this mystery brings together several of the conflicting strands, not necessarily resolving all of them. Inspector Chen is a rising cadre of the Party, with "black" roots in the scholarly traditions of Confucian China--requiring a mast...

from TadAD

Set in Shanghai shortly after the Tiananmen Square events of 1989, this story combines a mystery with perspective and commentary upon the upheavals that occurred in Chinese politics and society during that period. The young feel that the classless society has become a fiction hiding privilege and...