“Xiaolong knows that words can save your soul and in his pungent, poignant mystery, he proves it on every page.”
—Chicago Tribune
Setting: China
Number of Crimes (Titles in Series): 3
Last Seen (Most recent title): When Red is Black
Series description: Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai police is more than just a police detective–he is a published poet and translator, a thoughtful intellectual raised in the communist China of the Cultural Revolution and now solving murders in post-Tiananmen Shanghai.
Series includes: Death of a Red Heroine, A Loyal Character Dancer, When Red is Black
Qiu Xiaolong is a prizewinning poet and critic in China, now teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery series has sold over a million copies and has been published in twenty languages.
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