Inspector Bao Zheng Mysteries by Chris West (#1-2)
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Overview: Chris West is a British writer. He works in a range of genres: business, psychology, history and crime / general fiction. His China Quartet, four mysteries written in the 1990s, were among the first crime novels to be set in the contemporary People’s Republic of China.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. The Beijing Opera Murder (aka Death of a Blue Lantern)
China, 1990. A nation struggles to reconcile its ancient traditions, the strident rhetoric of the Party, and the economic and social upheavals of change. Memories of the events on Tiananmen Square, from one year before, also haunt the city. Inspector Bao Zheng is a middle-ranking Beijing detective caught in these conflicting currents. For some relaxation, the inspector attends an evening of traditional opera – but the night proves far from relaxing. A murder is committed in the auditorium, and he has to investigate. Bao soon finds himself involved with the renascent Triads, a young woman that his superiors would like to frame and the possibility of corruption at a high level. He must also deal with the political consequences of Tiananmen. Enemies are keen to expose Bao as sympathetic to the protestors, which would endanger his career and possibly his life. The Inspector realizes that to solve the case and to save himself he must put himself in peril. But will this judgement prove fatal?
2. The Hungry Ghost Murder
Rural China, 1995. Inspector Bao Zheng takes his new wife, city-born Rosina Lin, to the remote village where he grew up and where his troubled elder brother still lives. He is worried she might find the place crude and dirty – but this soon becomes the least of his concerns. The local Party Secretary is bludgeoned to death with a bust of Karl Marx. The police are baffled and Bao is drawn into the investigation. He soon begins to uncover corruption and bitter conflict beneath the quiet surface of rural life, and then to suspect that the answer to the mystery may lie deeper in the past, in a story that touches on both his own life and that of his brother. When the local police arrest a clearly innocent young man and force a confession out of him, Bao has to act fast – but can he do so, given what the emerging truth is revealing about his own past and very identity?
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