China Detective

🔍 What's it about? In this new novel, Judge Dee must assert himself in the rain-soaked and corruption-ridden trading city of Lan-fang. No sooner has he arrived than he finds himself facing not only hostile guild masters, but also three interwoven mysteries that demand all his ingenuity. A fisherman pulls a headless corpse dressed in a precious silk robe from the Imperial Canal—is it the missing guild master Wang? At the same time, a well-known usurer dies under mysterious circumstances in the arms of his young concubine, and a legendary puzzle box poses a riddle. As if that weren't ...

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for...

Something swooped down and killed him. Slit his throat, leaving deep claw marks. A second man is struck down the same way. Witnesses claim a dragon slew the man. Detective Dee does not believe in dragons. He takes the case and finds himself in pursuit of a mythological beast that can't possibly exist. But just might! Another exciting tale of mystery, intrigue and suspense in the mythology of ancient China, set in the Victorian London of Sherlock Holmes. Get your copy today.

"Moreira displays his many years of dramatic training and extensive theatrical experience as he animates characters as diverse as low-life thugs, the upper-class Bainbridge women, and even Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Tim Campbell and Suzanne Toren ably narrate the court deposition sequences. This...

It’s Victorian London. China Town A crisis is about to explode. Ghosts are marauding the merchants. Merchants are being murdered in ghastly ways. But only certain items are being stolen. Why? And what need to ghosts have of physical Things? None of it makes sense. Detective Dee is asked to help solve this growing Puzzle and trend of violence. But how do you stop marauders who Are not ghosts, and yet can materialize And vanish like one?

CORNWALL, 1967. Two children witness a brutal act—one a seven-year-old boy watching from the clifftops, the other a girl glimpsing it from her bedroom in Ireland. Neither speaks. Both are changed. LONDON, 2006. Nearing retirement, DCI John Kennedy is still haunted by one case he never cracked: the disappearance of young nurse Kathy. A national Crimewatch reenactment retraces her last steps and jolts the case alive. A new witness emerges. The trail points not to a lone tragedy, but to a patient predator. As Kennedy follows the leads, he’s drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse that spans ...

Books 4, 5 and 6 in the SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series – known collectively as TTHE DEATH BRINGER TRILOGY, Derek Landy's fantastically imaginative series about our favourite dead detective. DARK DAYS Skulduggery Pleasant is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company...

When local real estate shark Edgar Coleman is murdered and "good riddance" is the response from every Pecan Spring resident, China Bayles quickly learns that Coleman was no stranger to adultery and blackmail. China's fiancé, the interim police chief, is immersed in the investigation, and the suspect list grows steadily longer. China puts her honeymoon plans aside and starts hunting for the killer. As her investigation gets underway, she digs up dirt and secrets on people she knows.

London, 2006 DCI John Kennedy is weeks away from retirement when the 1983 disappearance of a young nurse, Kathy Bird, is reignited by a high-profile cold-case feature on Crimewatch—unearthing a new witness and pulling Kennedy into the hunt for a killer who has evaded justice for far too long. But this isn’t just any predator. Cunning, methodical, and relentless, he has spent a lifetime perfecting his crimes. His web stretches back to the Summer of Love, 1967, where the first pieces of this nightmare were set in motion. As Kennedy digs deeper, the past collides with the present. Bruce, ...

“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”—San Diego Union-Tribune While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing...

Her mind is her most powerful weapon. What happens when it's erased? Harvey Boone from the National Clandestine Service convinces Jazz Elliot to join his psychic spy division since she’s the most adept remote viewer he’s ever found. Her mission is to find the Chinese assassins who threatened elite Americans to stop the release of a biological weapon in China. Before she locates the assassins, her memory is wiped, and she doesn’t remember Harvey or her mission. Now she can’t distinguish her friends from her enemies, including Aidan, who claims to be her redeemer. She decides to trust...

Ranked #1 NEW RELEASE on AMAZON. SHANGHAI, 1937. Someone has killed the Yellow Swan. Who murdered this beautiful, beguiling, erotic half-Japanese, half-Chinese nightclub singer with whom all of Shanghai is enthralled? Was it one of her jealous lovers? Was it the nearby, hovering Japanese military who thought she was a spy for the Chinese? Or was it the Chinese who thought she was a spy for the Japanese? As July’s heat and humidity wrap themselves around the city, and suck the energy from Shanghai’s Chinese, Japanese, and British communities, tensions steadily rise. The Japanese military...

Discover this captivating and deeply moving mystery series that will take you around the world and keep you up all night. Hackers are poised ...to take over the Internet.When young FBI special agent Jake Maguire is called to investigate a brutal murder on a Virginia bike path, he never expects the case to take him on a wild ride across the globe. But as he delves deeper into the crime, he realizes it's not just a simple murder - it's an international case of cyber crime, with a trail leading all the way to China. To help him navigate the complexities of the case, Jake teams up with an ...

Shanghai, China. 1945. What if you are ordered to solve a complicated crime, under almost impossible conditions, and will face unthinkable repercussions if you fail to promptly deliver the solution? That is what happens to Shanghai-based private investigator Sun-jin when the exiled president of China orders him to find out who tried to assassinate his wife when she was on a secret diplomatic mission for him in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. With the clock ticking, Sun-jin quickly learns that solving a crime in an enemy-occupied city — even a city you know like the back of your hand — is ...

Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah’s funny and poignant first novel about a young Chinese-American woman who travels to Beijing to discover food, family, and herself is a delight—complete with mouth-watering descriptions of Asian culinary delicacies, from Peking duck and Mongolian hot pot to the...

From New York Times bestselling author Liliana Hart comes an out-of-print book that has been revised and updated, with never before read scenes. “Hart has taken world building to a glorious new level...Rena Drake is a great character." (Booked and Loaded) Since the Banishment, Rena has become the Drakan Enforcer, cleaning up the messes her dragon brethren make in order to keep their presence in the human world hidden. When a group of rogue Drakan begins killing dragons who refuse to join the army of the Destroyer—the dragon they believe will become their true king—Rena has no choice ...

The first anniversary of their wedding was a cause for celebration for Lord and Lady Sinclair and a ball was being held at the family manse in Scotland at Loch Eden. What should have been a happy celebration of their first year became a nightmare when a masked intruder entered the ballroom and shot James, Lord Sinclair, leaving him badly wounded. As he lay recuperating his wife Danni and his PI partner Jim Ashton and their friend DCI Andrews took up the investigation. Danni, a dancer, now became a detective for the first time.

Looking into the "suicide" of his lover's ex-husband sounds like a hairball to a private investigator. But he never imagined it could get him killed! Alton Rhode travels to San Francisco to investigate an alleged suicide and winds up ensnared in a web of cryptocurrency-fueled murder and international intrigue! The private eye knows a lot about murder and almost nothing about bitcoins. But he soon gets educated about the latter with the help of an unorthodox but brilliant young woman. And his own expertise comes in very handy when he runs into a bunch of Russians and Chinese whose motives ...

El honorable Drake Hayward está metido hasta el cuello en el problema más complejo con el que se ha topado en su vida y lo único que puede hacer para resolverlo es ponerse en manos de sus buenos amigos, los Wainhouse, que se encargarán de descifrar cómo fue que terminó convertido en el principal sospechoso de un macabro asesinato. En el camino para probar su inocencia, él no solo se convertirá en un investigador más, sino que también se verá obligado a trabajar codo a codo con la señorita Lucinda Hatley, una joven secretaria de Scotland Yard con quien mantiene una relación ...

Una novela de misterio, aventura y giros inesperados. ¿Estás listo para descubrir los secretos más oscuros de China? Francisco Valiente Polillas, un detective peculiar y con una personalidad única, se ve arrastrado a un misterio ancestral en "Amarillo – El misterio del pato pekinés". Cuando una serie de eventos misteriosos lo lleva a Pekín, se encuentra atrapado en un juego peligroso que desafiará tanto su intelecto como su valentía. Acompañado por un elenco de personajes fascinantes, incluyendo al astuto Ahmed Al Fasala, Francisco se adentrará en un enigma relacionado con un ...