Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a Ph D degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy he stayed on in St Louis where he still lives with his wife. Qiu’s sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry.
19 Ebooks por Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong: Don’t Cry, Tai Lake
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.When Chief Inspector Chen Cao is offered a week’s break at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, he accepts immediately. Increasingly worn out by the politics of his job, t …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Enigma of China
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 detectiv …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Shanghai Redemption
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.’The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It’s a miracle that I survived as long as I did.’ For years, Chen Cao managed to b …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Inspector Chen Collection 1-3
Chief Inspector Chen wanted to be a poet, but the authorities gave him a job in the Shanghai Police Department. He is an excellent detective, but he can never escape the struggle between what the Par …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Mao Case
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by ric …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: When Red is Black
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.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, medic …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Case of Two Cities
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 throug …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Red Mandarin Dress
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai.An early morning jogger found h …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Death of a Red Heroine
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.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 po …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Loyal Character Dancer
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspec …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€3.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Hold Your Breath, China
‘Fascinating… Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about modern China is another well-crafted mystery’ – Booklist Starred Review Inspector Chen is on the case of a serial murderer when he is …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€6.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Shadow of the Empire, The
‘Brilliant’ –Publishers Weekly Starred Review The legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Becoming Inspector Chen
Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his past hold a clue to the poetry case? After a number of …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder
Chen Cao has been removed from his chief inspector role, but that doesn’t stop him investigating a ‘private kitchen’ murder that has similarities to a Judge Dee story. No longer a chief inspector, Ch …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Qiu Xiaolong: Love and Murder in the Time of Covid
Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic – and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party’s so-call …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Qiu Xiaolong: The Conspiracies of the Empire
The legendary Judge Dee Renjie returns, in this lyrical combination of mystery, history and ancient Chinese politics from the author of the renowned Inspector Chen mysteries In Tang dynasty China, Em …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€24.99
