Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically "sensitive," and now the Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally take on a 'special assignment.' Leery of international embarrassment, the party is concerned about rumors relate[...]

Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member [...]

When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then a murder is reported: Chen is loath to shorten his working [...]

Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of a dancing g[...]

""Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --"Washington Post Book World" on" A Case of Two Cities
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party - a week's vacation at a luxurious r[...]

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation--a 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 he's a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the[...]

By the Edgar Award nominee and Anthony Award winner.Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catharine 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 rout[...]

Shanghain poliisilaitoksen kaunosielu Chen Cao selvittää kaupungin historian ensimmäistä sarjamurhaa.Ylikomisario Chen Caon virkavapaa keskeytyy, kun sarjamurha järkyttää Shanghaita. Murhaaja surmaa nuoria naisia kuristamalla ja jättää ruumiit julkisille paikoille perinteiseen kiinalaismek[...]

Bailin kanavasta löytyy nuoren ja kauniin mallikansalaisen alaston ruumis, ja shanghailainen ylikomisario Chen Cao joutuu mahdottoman tehtävän eteen. Murhattu nainen on Puolueen ikoni, joka näyttää omistautuneen vain aatteelle sekä työlleen tavaratalon kosmetiikkaosastolla. Hänen elämäst�[...]