Xiaolong Qiu Boeken

Shanghai is in 1990 een stad die aarzelt tussen communisme en kapitalisme. Qui Xiaolong toont in Dood van een rode heldin het dagelijks leven in deze wereldstad zonder daarbij de vaart van zijn razend spannende thriller te verminderen. Het boek bezorgde de auteur wereldwijde faam en is genomineerd voor de Edgar Award in de categorie Best First Novel.Inspecteur Chen van de politie in Shanghai onderzoekt de moord op Guan Hongying. Als modelarbeidster is zij een politiek voorbeeld. In haar woning vindt Chen echter burgerlijk-decadente opmaakspulletjes en erotische foto's. Het is een pikante zaak, die tot in de hoogste politieke kringen voert. Chen loopt bij het onderzoek zelf levensgevaarlijke risico's. Qui Xiaolong (1953) is geboren en getogen in Shanghai. Hij was in de Verenigde Staten toen het bloedbad op het Plein van de Hemelse Vrede plaatsvond. Hij besloot niet meer terug te keren en doceert nu Chinese literatuur aan de Washington University.

Removed from his position as chief Inspector, Chen Cao has been installed as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office but immediately placed on involuntary 'convalescence leave.' Despite being on leave, the murder of an acquaintance leads Chen to get involved in an investigation that shares a striking similarity to a Judge Dee novel.

Chief Inspector Chen Cao never had a choice about his career. A poet by training, he was assigned to the Shanghai Police Department after college. To his own surprise, he became an excellent detective, and now he's in line to take over the top political position in the department. Which is why the Party has chosen him for the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng. Zhou Keng was running the Shanghai Housing Development Committee when a number of his corrupt practices were exposed. Removed from his position and placed into detention, he apparently hanged himself while under guard. The Party is anxious to have Zhou's death declared a suicide, but the sequence of events doesn't quite add up. Now Chen will have to decide what to do - follow the party line, or seek the justice his position requires and risk angering powerful people...

Prizewinning debut showcasing a remarkable new talent in crime writing.

Chief Inspector Chen is assigned to investigate a group of environmental activists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China. The case is supposed to be simple, but it is complicated by Chen having history with the leader of the group. Meanwhile Detective Yu is on the trail of a serial murderer.

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 in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai’s beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member.

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often put in charge of politically sensitive cases. Having recently ruffled more than a few official feathers, when he is asked to look into a sensitive corruption case he takes immediate action - he goes on leave from work. But while on vacation, the body of a murdered young woman is found in a highly trafficked area and the only notable aspect is that she was redressed in a red mandarin dress. When a second body appears, this time in the People's Park, also in precisely the same kind of red mandarin dress, the newspapers start screaming that Shanghai is being stalked by its first sexual serial killer. With the Party anxious to resolve the murders quickly, Chen finds himself in the midst of his most potentially dangerous and sensitive case to date.

Set against the backdrop of modern China, this collection of linked short stories chronicles fifty years of transformation through the lens of Red Dust Lane in Shanghai. It captures the evolution from the optimism following the Communist revolution in 1949, through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, to the pro-democracy movements and Tiananmen Square riots. Each story reflects the broader historical shifts while revealing the personal experiences of those living in this small yet significant street, making history both epic and intimate.

"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 resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its clear waters, is now covered by fetid algae, its waters polluted by toxic runoff from local manufacturing plants. Then the director of one of the manufacturing plants responsible for the pollution is murdered and the leader of the local ecological group is the primary suspect of the local police. Now Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and find a measure of justice for both the victim and the accused.

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation—one where the principle figure and his family have long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But he left behind the organization and his partners-in-crime, and Inspector Chen is charged to uncover those responsible and act as necessary to end the corruption ring. In a twisting case that takes him from Shanghai, all the way to the U.S., reuniting him with his previous cohort from the U.S. Marshall's service—Inspector Catherine Rhon.