Qiu Xiaolong

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and …

Inspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. 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 …

En röd hjältinnas död är en roman skriven av Qiu Xiaolong. Den utkom först på engelska år 2000. En svensk översättning utkom 2003. Handlingen utspelar sig i Shanghai, där en kvinna hittas mördad i en kanal. Den mördade visar sig vara en mönsterarbetare som enligt arbetskamrater lägger ner sin själ för jobbet och …

When Red is Black is Qiu Xiaolong's third Inspector Chen mystery and provides an insightful look into modern China.