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Grace Chu and John Knox novels volume 1
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When a Chinese national working for an American-owned construction company is kidnapped along with his one-man security detail, Rutherford Risk, a firm specializing in hostage recovery, recruits two outsiders to aide in the victims return.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Returning home to Shanghai after years of chasing the American dream, Wei Zhen and his newly wealthy family, including his wife, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, must each confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.
5) The Mao case
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Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Offered a luxury vacation near Lake Tai, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the murder investigation of a manufacturing plant director who had been accused of polluting the once-beautiful lake, a case that implicates the leader of a local ecological group.
Author
Series
Century volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Description
Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral meet in Shanghai to find the Pearl of the Sea Dragon relic and complete the pact before Heremit Devil can stop them.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 25 cm
Description
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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Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
Tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Asked to take the lead in a corruption investigation in which the principal figure and his family have already fled to the U.S., Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is charged to uncover the culprit's partners-in-crime and their organization.
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper. Just when he thought life had settled into a pleasant routine, he is called back to Washington. His assignment: go undercover as the American ambassador for a massive Chinese multinational conglomerate, and learn the secrets of their powerful CEO Chen Qi, whom HQ believes to be a front man for the nearly uncrackable Chinese Intelligence, known as the Guoanbu.
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"Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances."
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Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his past hold a clue to the poetry case? After a number of grueling cases Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his loyalties lie. What's more, he is excluded from an investigation into an incendiary poem posted on an online forum. Wracked...
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Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
No longer a chief inspector, Chen Cao finds himself as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office. To outsiders it's a promotion, but Chen knows he's being removed from the spotlight as he's immediately placed on involuntary 'convalescence leave' to stop him interfering with any cases. However, with various high-profile crimes making headlines and fears escalating over vigilante reprisals, Chen's superiors know he must at least appear...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing...
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Aun recuperandose de los secretos de familia recien descubiertos, Joy se escapa a Shanghai para encontrar a su padre biologico, el artista ZG Li. Deslumbrada por el, y cegada por el idealismo y la rebeldia, Joy se lanza a una nueva sociedad en la China Roja, haciendo caso omiso de los peligros del regimen comunista. Devastada por la fuge de Joy y llena de miedo por su seguridad, Pearl esta decidida a salvar a su hija. Desde la amontonada ciudad a...
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"Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did." *** For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered a potential rising star in the Party until, after...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
450 pages, 17 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1939 Romy and her family leave Austria to settle in Shanghai as Jewish refugees and Romy forms a deep friendship with Li, and in 2016, Romy's granddaughter Alexandra transfers to Shanghai to search for clues about her mother's history.
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