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Minotaur Books
June 2014
On Sale: June 17, 2014
288 pages
ISBN: 1250048575
EAN: 9781250048578
Kindle: B00AQUTNHA
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Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situationβa 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 heβs a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the top politic position in the police department, while being one of most respected policeman in the department. Which is why heβs brought in by the Party to sign off on the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng. Zhou Kengβa trusted princeling, son of a major party memberβwas head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee when a number of his corrupt practices were exposed on the internet. Removed from his position and placed into extra-legal detention, Zhou apparently hanged himself while under guard. While the Party is anxious to have Zhouβs death declared a suicide, and for the renowned Chief Inspector Chen to sign off on that conclusion, the sequence of events donβt quite add up. Now Chen will have to decide what to do β investigate the death as a possible homicide and risk angering unseen powerful people, or seek the justice that his position requires him to strive for. Qiu Xiaolong's Enigma of China is one of Publishers Weekly's Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013
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