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"In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China's Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country's distant past and her own recent history. The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends suddenly in bloodshed, and leads to...
3) The interior
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An American lawyer and a Chinese policewoman jointly investigate working conditions in an American-owned toy factory in China where a woman has committed suicide. By the author of Flower Net.
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"The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing--but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China's top police college but he's been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until...
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2021.
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"Shanghai, 1935. Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney, Australia, to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. A novice to global commerce, Rowland is under strict instructions to keep a low profile... but that soon becomes next to impossible. A beautiful Russian taxi girl - who once claimed to be the princess, Anastasia, and who danced in Rowland's arms the night before - is found slain in his suite. It's no surprise that suspicion...
6) The Mao case
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Minotaur Books
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2009.
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English
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Inspector Chen investigates a young woman, the granddaughter of an actress who was once close to Mao, who may be in possession of an object that would bring dishonor to the Chairman's memory.
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Minotaur Books
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[2012]
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English
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In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
10) The magistrate
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2023.
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"A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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2012.
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English
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In his explosive new thriller, Burdett captures the excitement and unease felt throughout the world on the eve of the changeover. Chan, a Chinese-Irish policeman, goes in search of the killer and the truth behind the British government's attempts at a cover-up.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2006.
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Asked to take the lead in a corruption investigation in which the principal figure and his family have already fled to the U.S., Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is charged to uncover the culprit's partners-in-crime and their organization.
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Soho Press
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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, the Party Secretary, but also because he has been made an offer he can't refuse by a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached-he is to translate into English a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai evoking nostalgia for...
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Minotaur Books
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[2011]
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English
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Offered a luxury vacation near Lake Tai, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the murder investigation of a manufacturing plant director who had been accused of polluting the once-beautiful lake, a case that implicates the leader of a local ecological group.
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Ava Lee novels volume 8
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Spiderline, House of Anansi Press
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2017.
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English
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When Xu reveals that the Tsai family is forcing his Triad organization back into the drug business, Ava Lee sets out to help deter the Tsai, and gets caught up in a tangled web that extends to the top echelons of political power in the United States.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2007.
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English
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Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department finds himself caught up in a dangerous case when the bodies of two young women dressed in identical red mandarin dresses turn up, igniting fears of the city's first sexual serial killer.
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Inspector O novels volume 5
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Thomas Dunne Books
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[2012]
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English
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James Church, a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way that no one else can, comes roaring back with a new novel introducing Major Bing, the nephew of Inspector O and the long-suffering chief of the Chinese Ministry of State Security operations on the border with North Korea. Bing is faced with a highly sensitive assignment to bring back from the North a long missing Chinese security...
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AmazonCrossing
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2018.
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English
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"In ancient China, history, vengeance, and murder collide At thirteen, investigative prodigy Huang Zixia had already proved herself by aiding her father in solving crimes. At seventeen, she's on the run, accused of murdering her family to escape an arranged marriage. She must use her skills to unmask the real killer and clear her name. But when Huang Zixia seeks the help of Li Shubai, the Prince of Kui, her life and freedom are bargained: agree to...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-129
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Hard Case Crime
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2017.
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English
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Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up--about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule--had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste,...
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