Murderous Asia
Explore the Asian world, as famous literary detectives sort out murder and mayhem. |
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 | CHINA |
| The Eye of Jade |
| After resigning from the ministry of public security, Diane Wei Liang’s Mei Wang launches a private investigative agency, a technically illegal business in China, much to her family’s dismay, and is hired to track down a jade seal from the Han Dynasty, previously believed to be destroyed. |
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 | CHINA |
| The Firemaker |
| When Peter May’s Margaret Campbell, an American forensic pathologist, is lecturing in Beijing, the last thing she expects is a serial killer -- she teams up with local police Detective Li Yan, and gets a course in the many levels of Chinese society. |
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 | CHINA |
| The Mao Case |
| Qiu Xiaolong’s Chief Inspector Chen, of the Shanghai Police Department, is often assigned cases considered politically sensitive, and now the Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally investigate the granddaughter of an actress who had a ’special relationship’ to Mao -- if he fails, the consequences will be unpleasant for all concerned. |
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 | INDIA |
| Inspector Ghote’s First Case |
| H. F. R. Keating introduces us to newly minted police inspector Ghote, who is summoned by the former Bombay police commissioner to find out why the pregnant Iris Dawkins, who seemed the epitome of the contented young housewife, would shoot herself at the hill station. |
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 | INDIA |
| The Case of the Missing Servant |
| Meet Tarquin Hall’s Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator -- portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, his main work in hot and dusty Delhi is screening prospective marriage partners -- but when an honest public litigator is accused of murder, he uses all of his resources to investigate. |
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 | JAPAN |
| Inspector Imanishi Investigates |
| In one of Seicho Matsumoto’s unique murder mysteries, the corpse of an unknown provincial is discovered under the rails of a train in a Tokyo station -- homicide Det. Insp. Imanishi pursues the criminal, even when the official investigation is closed. |
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 | JAPAN |
| The Devotion of Suspect X |
| Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband, in this introduction to Keigo Higashino mysteries -- so, when he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and he ends up dead -- her next door neighbor offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well. |
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 | JAPAN |
| The Salaryman’s Wife |
| Sujata Massey’s Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old Japanese American English teacher, living precariously on her tiny paycheck in Tokyo, the most expensive city in the world -- on a visit to the ancient castle town of Shiroyama, she gets involved in a local murder, and her probing angers the conservative police and most of the citizens. |
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 | KOREA |
| A Corpse in the Koryo |
| James Church’s state security officer, Inspector O, is called on the carpet for botching a sensitive surveillance assignment, but soon realizes that competing military and intelligence forces hierarchies have set him up to fail -- he walks a tightrope, while honoring his unwavering commitment to the ideals of justice. |
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 | KOREA |
| Jade Lady Burning |
| When a young Korean woman is found brutally murdered in a torched apartment in the red-light district of Seoul, it looks like it might be the work of her American soldier boyfriend -- Martin Limon’s creations, Sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom, Military Police for the U.S. 8th Army, are assigned to the case. |
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 | LAOS |
| Killed at the Whim of a Hat |
| When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she’s convinced her career is over, in the first of a new Colin Cotterill mystery series -- but, when a buried Volkswagen is unearthed, revealing two skeletons, her new life becomes a great deal more dangerous. |
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 | LAOS |
| The Coroner’s Lunch |
| Confronted by the poisoning of an important official’s wife and the sudden appearance of three bodies that may create an international incident between Laos and Vietnam, Colin Cotterill’s 72-year-old state coroner, Dr. Siri Paiboun, keeps his cool. |
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 | MONGOLIA |
| The Shadow Walker |
| As Mongolia struggles to find its place in a post-Soviet global world, Michael Walter’s Minister Negrui, a Harvard MBA and former head of the Serious Crimes Unit, is confronted with a dead Englishman and a possible serial killer. |
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 | SINGAPORE |
| Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder |
| Shamini Flint introduces notoriously difficult Inspector Singh -- sent to Malaysia when a Singaporean citizen is accused of her husband’s murder, he’s pretty much on his own in a country he considers to be dirty, foreign, and altogether too hot. |
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 | THAILAND |
| Bangkok 8 |
| When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to John Burdett’s Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers’ customary system of bribery. |
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 | THAILAND |
| The Risk of Infidelity Index |
| Half Jewish and half Italian, Christopher G. Moore’s Vincent Calvino is an ex-lawyer from New York who became a P.I. in Bangkok -- approached by a group of expat housewives to investigate their husbands, he discovers an alliance of forces that has been blocking his effort to expose a secret pirate drug operation. |
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 | TIBET |
| The Skull Mantra |
| Sentenced to penal servitude in Tibet, Eliot Pattison’s Inspector Shan, a disgraced Chinese Prosecutor, is assigned to complete a pro forma investigation of the gruesome murder of a chinese official in Tibet -- the party line is that dissident Tibetan monks are to blame, but he quickly realizes that the truth lies in other directions. |
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