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By Leon, Donna2009., Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Commissario Brunetti Volume: 5Summary Note: As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon's intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of reigning diva Flavia Petrelli. Then, as the flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet. Sinister and exotic, Acqua Alta is another chilling addition to Donna Leon's best-selling series.
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2006., Adult, St. Martin's Minotaur Call No: MYS Fic Xia Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Chen mysteries Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: A Shanghai police inspector struggles against the establishment in his investigation of an important but corrupt businessman. The fourth Inspector Chen Cao mystery.
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2012., Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Xia Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Don't Cry, Tai Lake by Qiu Xiaolong, Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its clear waters, is now covered by fetid algae, its waters polluted by toxic runoff from local manufacturing plants. Then the director of one of the manufacturing plants responsible for the pollution is murdered and the leader of the local ecological group is the primary suspect of the local police. Now Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and find a measure of justice for both the victim and the accused.
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2013., St. Martin's Minotaur Call No: MYS Fic Xia Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: An Inspector Chen novel.Summary Note: In line for the top politic position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
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-- Fire maker.2018., Quercus Call No: SC MYS Fic May Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly. An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites, exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil--a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others.
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2018., Quercus Call No: SC MYS Fic May Edition: Paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The China thrillers Volume: 2Summary Note: "The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing. Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too familiar. The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell once again strengths their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it."--
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c2011., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole mysteries Volume: 6Summary Note: "Two women are found murdered in Oslo - both of them have drowned in their own blood. What mystifies the police is that the puncture wounds in the victims' faces have been caused from the inside of their mouths. Kaja Solness from Homicide is sent to Hong Kong to track down a man who is the Oslo Police Department's only specialist on serial killings. The severely addicted detective has tried to disappear in the vast, anonymous city. He is on the run and haunted by his last case, the woman he loves, and creditors alike. His name is Harry Hole."--Fantastic Fiction website.
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2002., Soho Press Call No: MYS Fic Xia Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Assigned to help the wife of an important witness to reach the United States safely, U.S. marshal Catharine Rohn learns that the woman has vanished, while inspector Chen reluctantly assumes the task of saving face.
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2010., Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Xia Edition: 1st Minotaur Books pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Inspector Chen investigates a young woman, the granddaughter of an actress who was once close to Mao, who may be in possession of an object that would bring dishonor to the Chairman's memory.
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2009., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Con Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Bosch Volume: 14Summary Note: The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
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2019., Quercus Call No: SC MYS Fic May Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: China thrillerSummary Note: "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."--Amazon.com.
