In a busy Shanghai alley, the body of an American police officer is found, dismembered and arranged in bizarre fashion. The murder appears to be the work of a trained assassin with a deadly message to send. And before long, he leaves another: the body of an African diplomat, as skilfully carved up as the first. Assigned to track the killer is homicide detective Zhong Fong. Haunted by the deaths of his actress wife and unborn child, Fong throws himself into the case. But his concentration is disrupted, first by the arrival of his late wife's lover, and then by the realisation that he may be the killer's next target. As he hunts for the murderer, Fong must confront his own secrets - and those of his rapidly changing city. ''''''''An extraordinarily accomplished mystery.'''''''' Booklist.

A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

SHANGHAI, 1935.Someone is Murdering People in the Most Enticing and Most Dangerous City in the World.Someone in this atmospheric, richly-woven period piece, is systematically killing people in Shanghai's notorious and popular Flowery Kingdom. And it is Inspector-Detective Sun-jin's job to track down the killer and arrest him, all at great peril to himself and to the people he loves.As Sun-jin investigates the murders, and deals with his complicated personal life, he takes us through Shanghai's contrasting and conflicting worlds of East and West - down the city's dark alleys and streets, through its Triad-controlled underworld, and into the plush private clubs of its British and American expatriates. Sun-jin shows us Shanghai at its best and at its worst - its popular nightclubs, its jazz bands, its taxi dancers, and its gambling dens, all places where money and greed thrive, human life means little, and disparate international cultures, power, and politics often collide.

In a busy Shanghai alley, the body of an American police officer is found, dismembered and arranged in bizarre fashion. The murder appears to be the work of a trained assassin with a deadly message to send. And before long, he leaves another- the body of an African diplomat, as skilfully carved up as the first. Assigned to track the killer is homicide detective Zhong Fong. Haunted by the deaths of his actress wife and unborn child, Fong throws himself into the case. But his concentration is disrupted, first by the arrival of his late wife's lover, and then by the realisation that he may be the killer's next target. As he hunts for the murderer, Fong must confront his own secrets - and those of his rapidly changing city.

After the mutilated bodies of 18 women are discovered in a mass grave in Shanghai, detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell arrive and are met by Mei-Ling, deputy head of the citys serious crime squad. The closer they get to the killer, the closer they come to realizing their own personal nightmares.