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This story presents “an authentic look at urban China coupled with a  fascinating police procedural. Shanghai inspector Chen Cao, a  published poet and translator of  English-language detective novels, finds himself pitted against corruption in high places as he investigates the murder of a  young woman, a  model worker with a  presumably exemplary life. Readers will feel as if they are walking the streets of  the city with Chen Cao, visiting friends in their apartments, eating in the restaurants. And they will learn a  great deal about the effects of  the Cultural Revolution on ordinary Chinese citizens. --Nancy Pearl for Library Journal

The book was the 2001 Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery

Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Desk in advance of the meeting; this book is also available as a downloadable audiobook via the library's free Hoopla service.