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  • Death of a Red Heroine

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 1 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    A TIME “100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time”Meet Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police in this “refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller” (Huffington Post).“A matchless pearl.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirA young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Loyal Character Dancer

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 2 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    The second book in the Inspector Chen investigationsInspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Red Is Black

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 3 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Red Mandarin Dress

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 5 - Inspector Chen Cao
    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often put in charge of politically sensitive cases. Having recently ruffled more than a few official feathers, when he is asked to look into a sensitive corruption case he takes immediate action - he goes on leave from work. But while on vacation, the body of a murdered young woman is found in a highly trafficked area and the only ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • A Case of Two Cities

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 4 - Inspector Chen Cao
    At once a compelling crime novel and an insightful, moving portrayal of contemporary China, A Case of Two Cities is the finest novel yet in this critically-acclaimed, award-wining series.Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Enigma of China

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 8 - Inspector Chen Cao
    The latest in Qiu Xiaolong's critically-acclaimed series about crime in modern China, featuring Shanghai Police Chief Inspector CaoChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation-a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine. Now he's a rising cadre in the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Years of Red Dust

    Stories of Shanghai

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Mao Case

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 6 - Inspector Chen Cao
    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since. As a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Don't Cry, Tai Lake

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 7 - Inspector Chen Cao
    **"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shanghai Redemption

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 9 - Inspector Chen Cao
    "The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did."For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Shadow of the Empire

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Narrated by David Shih ...
    Series series Judge Dee Investigation

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    **‘Brilliant’—**Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder set in seventh-century China.Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu’s newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the ... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Inspector Chen Mysteries

    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime series

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Narrated by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Dan Li, Daniel York, Full Cast, Jamie Zubairi, Sarah Lam ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Nine BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the crime novels of Qiu Xiaolong, set in Shanghai. Starring Jamie Zubairi as Chief Inspector Chen Cao, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry.Through thrilling crime drama, these nine mysteries paint a portrait of modern life in communist China, depicting traditional Shanghai life amidst the old alleyways and how it is rapidly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD