When Red Is Black
by:
Qiu Xiaolong (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781597221740 (1597221740)
Publish date: February 1st 2006
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Pages no: 445
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
China
Series: Inspector Chen Cao (#3)
bookshelves: winter-20152016, shanghai, series, dec-2015-free-for-all, communist-lit-richer, mystery-thriller Read from December 04 to 17, 2015 Description: Crime drama set in early 1990s Shanghai. When Chen agrees to do a translation job for a property developer he is given a laptop, a 'little...
I am still very much enjoying these slice of life in the 90's in Shanghai. Chen is taking more of a back seat in this story where Yu investigates the murder of a dissident writer. Political intrigues, political influence and every day life merge and give the reader a colourful and very interesting v...