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Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has when the Covid crisis is at its height in China. Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance.
The 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 grand capital of Chang'an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: 'A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!'
After a number of grueling cases Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his loyalties lie. What's more, he is excluded from an investigation into an incendiary poem posted on an online forum. Wracked with self-doubt and facing an anxious wait to discover the fate of his career, Chen is left to reflect on the events that have led to where he is now - from his amateur investigations as a child during the Cultural Revolution, to his very first case on the Shanghai Police Force. Why is he being kept away from the new case? As well as his career, is his life now also at risk?
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More than Two million copies of the Inspector Chen sold worldwide, and translation into twenty languages.
Death of a Red Heroine: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. Oct 3, 2023
With a panel of celebrated authors — Megan Abbott, Harlan Coben, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Sujata Massey — TIME presents the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s. And here's why Qiu's Death of a Red Heroine made the list.
BBC Radio 4 Drama broadcasts Inspector Chen Novels series,
'It's a dangerous and politically sensitive case for Inspector Chen when he is asked to investigate the sudden change of fortune of the granddaughter of Chairman Mao's mistress. The sixth in Qiu Xiaolong's series of Crime novels.'
Death of a Red Heroine,
A Loyal Character Dancer,
When Red Is Black,
A Case of Two Cities,
Red Mandarin Dress,
The Mao Case, Feb 11, 2017
Live on Live with Chinese author Qiu Xiaolong by RFI (Radio France Internationale)
New Inspector Chen novel honored on RFI (Radio France Internationale) Dec 24, 2016
'Il était une fois l'inspecteur Chen, c'est aux Editions Liana Levy. Dans son nouvel opus, Qiu Xiaolong raconte la genèse de son célèbre enquêteur, poète et fin gourmet. Et le tout aussi gourmand, Stéphane Lagarde est allé à la rencontre de l'écrivain chinois parmi les plus connus à l'étranger. '
The graphic novel La Danseuse de Mao. Une enquête de l'inspecteur Chen coming out in 2017.