Becoming Inspector Chen

Chief Inspector Chen, facing possible disciplinary action, is excluded from a new investigation that has seen a poem said to be criticising the current government removed from the Internet. Left fearing for his career he finds himself reflecting on his life growing up during the Cultural Revolution and his previous cases.

Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781780297538
ISBN10: 178029753X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Political

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. www.qiuxiaolong.com