Цю Сяолун — новинки

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since, as a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from within and without, and is unwilling to compromise his principles as a policeman in favor of political expedience.
However, after the new Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally take on a 'special assignment', an investigation already begun by Internal Security, he may no longer be able to resist those pressures. The party, increasingly leery of international embarrassment, is unhappy about two recent books that place Mao in a bad light. Now, Jiao, the granddaughter of an actress who was likely one of Mao's mistresses - a woman suspected of being Mao's own granddaughter - has recently quit her job, moved into a luxury apartment, and, without any visible means of support, become a part of a new social set centered around the remnants of pre-Communist Shanghai society. What they fear is that, somehow, she has inherited some artifact or material related to Mao that will, when made public, prove embarrassing. Even though there is no evidence that such even exists, Chen has been charged to infiltrate her social circle, determine if the feared material exists and, if it does, retrieve it quietly. And in only a few days - because if he can't resolve this 'Mao case' within the deadline, the party will resort to harsher, more deadly means.

Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai.

An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr Big Bucks that were taking over and transforming Shanghai.

Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet and an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way to release himself from the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off to begin an MA in Literature. Then another girl is found dead . . . With a serial killer on the loose. Chen is pulled back to work and into his most dangerous assignment yet.

"Закон триады" продолжает серию романов о независимом и решительном инспекторе Чэне. Вместе с детективом американской полиции Кэтрин Рон он расследует исчезновение Вэнь Липин, муж которой находится в США. Связанный с китайской мафией, он является важной фигурой в деле о незаконной иммиграции, которым занимается американское правосудие. Сумеет ли Чэнь и его американская коллега опередить бандитов триады, которые охотятся за Вэнь?

В многонаселенном старом доме найден труп пожилой женщины. Замкнутая и необщительная, она не имела ни друзей, ни знакомых, поэтому обнаружить хоть какую-нибудь улику или мотив преступления было трудно. Под подозрение попадают все жильцы дома. Инспектор Чэнь с головой погружается в изучение прошлого жертвы, желая понять, в чем корни произошедшей драмы, и неожиданно вычисляет таинственного убийцу...

"Шанхайский синдром" - блестящий дебют в жанре детектива известного китайского писателя. На окраине Шанхая в пластиковом мешке найден труп обнаженной юной девушки. Место, где обнаружили убитую, - заброшенное и труднодоступное. Улик никаких. Преступление из тех, которые называют нераскрываемыми. Но инспектор Чэнь не впадает в уныние. Одно плохо - всесильное министерство общественной безопасности давит на Чэня, мешая расследованию, так как жертва - известная на всю страну ударница труда. И все-таки решительный инспектор выходит на след убийцы...

Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US, refuses to testify until she is found and brought to join him in America. A few days later, a badly mutilated body turns up in Shanghai's Bund Park. It bears all the hallmarks of a triad killing. The US immigration agency, convinced that the Chinese government are hiding something, send US Marshal Catherine Rohn to Shanghai to join the investigation. Inspector Chen, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry, is under political pressure to find answers fast. When Catherine Rohn joins him he must decide what is more dangerous: to hide the truth, or to risk unleashing a scandal that could destroy his career.

Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others.

When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all costs. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case and reassigned to another area.

Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes and sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation and risk dismissal from his job and from the party. Or worse . . .