Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder

About the author

Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a PhD degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy in 1989 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.

All the titles in the Inspector Chen series, including Hold Your Breath, China, have been dramatized in BBC Radio 4 productions.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaolong Qiu, Qiu Xiaolong
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780727850713
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-5071-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: An Inspector Chen mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense