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A Mei Wang Mystery #2
Simon & Schuster
March 2010
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Featuring: Mei Wang
240 pages
ISBN: 1416549587
EAN: 9781416549581
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Mystery
Modern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in
China's capital city. After her resignation from the
Ministry for Public Security, Mei saw her status drop
swiftly in the eyes of her former colleagues, her TV-star
sister, and even her mother. But sharp, intuitive Mei has
taken her valuable experience and her insider knowledge of
the police and city politics and set herself up as a
successful private investigator. Now, with her own car, her
own business, even a male receptionist to reflect her
well-to-do status, Mei Wang is ensconced in her own little
corner of the biggest city in China. When Mei receives a
call from the chief executive at Guanghua Record Company,
she learns that one of Mr. Peng's top starlets -- the
beautiful pop star Kaili -- has been missing for four days.
Mei must find the starlet while keeping up the record
company's façade that nothing is amiss. Though Kaili is a
piece of Mr. Peng's moneymaking machine, Mei learns that she
is also a troubled, mysterious young woman whom no one
really knows. The discovery of a secret stash of letters in
Kaili's apartment sets Mei on an investigation that will
take her back to a troubled past that belongs not only to
Kaili, but to the entire nation. Meanwhile, in Gansu
Province, a work camp laborer named Lin is finally released
from eight years of forced labor on the outskirts of
civilization. He angrily remembers the betrayal that cost
him his youth and his sweetheart, who was torn from his life
when he was sent to the work camp. As Mei tries to
retrace Kaili's steps, so does Lin retrace his own
past...and he carries a secret to the case that no one would
ever expect. Paper Butterfly, the second mystery
featuring private detective Mei Wang, is as beautiful and
lyrical as it is eye-opening.
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