by Peter May
I came to Peter May via his rather bleak "Lewis" trilogy, with a dour Hebridean detective returning to his home island and uncovering dark deeds. It all seemed so authentically Scottish that I couldn't really imagine him writing anything else. Then I discovered that, more than a decade earlier, he...
A burned corpse in a park in Beijing is the beginning of a strange mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan and forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Together they must work out who the man is if it was suicide or murder. And if it was murder, who would want to kill him? Since they got on the wrong fo...
An American Pathologist giving a visiting lecture series, but with no clue about Chinese culture, and a higher ranking Chinese police officer find themselves investigating a series of murders that are linked together only by flimsy evidence. An opportunity for interesting insights into the cultural ...
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