The Secret Sharers

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.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaolong Qiu
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.01.2026
• EAN: 9781448317172
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-1717-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: An Inspector Chen mystery
• Subjects: China, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: police procedural, c 2020 to c 2029, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary