Xiaolong Qiu - Becoming Inspector Chen - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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 with self - doubt and facing an anxious wait to discover the fate of his career Chen is left to reflect on the events that have led to where he is now - from his amateur investigations as a child during the Cultural Revolution to his very first case on the Shanghai Police Force. Has fighting for the Chinese people and the morals he believes in put him in conflict with the Party? Why is he being kept away from the new case? As well as his career is his life now also at risk?
Title: Becoming Inspector Chen
Author(s): Xiaolong Qiu
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9781780297538
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 8/31/2021
Series: An Inspector Chen mystery
Category: Crime & Mystery