Sumérjase en un mundo de suspense y misterio con esta apasionante serie. Cada entrega lo sumerge en un peligroso submundo donde la intriga se mezcla con demonios personales. Siga investigaciones brillantes que desvelan oscuras conspiraciones, obligando a los protagonistas a enfrentarse a sus propios pasados. Estas obras son una fusión magistral de trabajo de detective y drama psicológico.
This book features Beijing detective Li Yan, and American pathologist, Margaret Campbell, as they track the killer of a government scientist whose horribly burned corpse is found smoldering in a Beijing park.
The first three victims were drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. The fourth victim was dispatched in the same way, but unlike the others he was an American diplomat.
A mass grave leads Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell to a series of unsolved murders. The victims have all undergone 'live' autopsies. They are hunting a monster.
A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror, and find out why. Detective Li Yan - an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell - has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal labourers. Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians and migrants in Beijing, Washington and Texas - posing multiple countries one, very singular, thread.
The fifth China thriller sees Li Yan and Margaret Campbell uncover an insidious conspiracy on the eve of the Beijing Olympics THE PENULTIMATE NOVEL IN THE CHINA SERIES, FROM THE RICHARD AND JUDY MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OFTHE BLACKHOUSE. THE SUFFERER A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition. THE LISTENER Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li's fiancée, Margaret Campbell. THE RUNNER When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.
GRUESOME MURDERS His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. FEARSOME LETTERS Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions. CHINESE WHISPERS There's no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history.
Li Jen a Margaret Campbellová se několik let po dramatickém závěru Pekingského rozparovače vracejí v nové povídce. „Tu zmizelou dívku jsem minulý týden viděl na svatbě duchů. Jako nevěstu.“ Li Jen a Margaret Campbellová prožili několik krušných let. Teď se oba snaží zvládat obrovskou pracovní zátěž a zároveň každodenní péči o svého syna Li Jona. Poté co Campbellovou osloví jedna zoufalá matka a dotkne se tak jejích vlastních mateřských instinktů, Li se pustí do vyšetřování případu zmizení sedmnáctileté pekingské dívky Ťiang Mej-lin. Tato laskavost se však brzy promění ve vyšetřování spojené s nebezpečným ilegálním obchodem a temným obřadem z dávné minulosti.
