Xiaolong Qiu Libros

Cuando aún no se ha repuesto de la noticia de que su antigua novia, Ling, se ha casado, el inspector jefe Chen Cao recibe la llamada de un ministro que le insta a encargarse, sin demora y personalmente, de una delicada investigación relacionada con el presidente Mao. Las autoridades temen que Jiao, la nieta de una actriz que mantuvo una «relación especial» con Mao y fue perseguida durante la Revolución Cultural, haya heredado algún documento que, de salir a la luz, empañe la figura de Mao, «intocable» aun décadas después de su fallecimiento. Jiao acaba de dejar un empleo mal pagado como recepcionista, se ha mudado a una lujosa vivienda y se ha integrado en un nuevo círculo de amistades que sólo anhela revivir nostálgicamente las costumbres y modas de la dorada Shanghai precomunista. Chen deberá infiltrase en el círculo, recuperar el comprometedor material –si existe– y evitar el escándalo, en un caso trepidante en el que se entrecruzan la fuerza de los mitos, la corrupción de la élite política y la historia reciente de China.

Barcelona. 23 cm. 335 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Serie Inspector jefe Chen Cao', numero coleccion(871). Qiu, Xiaolong 1953-. Traducción de Victoria Ordóñez Diví. Título original: Shanghai redemption. Ordóñez Diví, Victoria. traductor .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-9066-208-3

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, the opportunity to relax and recover sounds like heaven. But the beautiful lake he remembers is much changed: covered by algae, its waters have been polluted by waste from local manufacturing plants. Even the local food is dangerous to eat. Is this the cost of progress in the new China? Then his holiday is fatally disturbed: the boss of one of the most polluting businesses has been murdered and the leader of a local ecological group is the prime suspect. Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the death and find justice for both the victim and the accused.

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.