Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a PhD degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy he stayed on in St Louis where he still lives with his wife. Qiu's sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry.
Fascinating . Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about modern China in another well-crafted mystery * <b>Booklist Starred Review</b> * Outstanding . Qiu's execution matches his ambition. Fans of mysteries about honest cops working for compromised regimes won't want to miss this one * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> * Inspector Chen's 10th mystery effectively uses the genre to explore China's current pollution crisis * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> * Another superb entry in an always-outstanding series * <b><i>Booklist Starred Review</b></i> of <b><i>Shanghai Redemption</b></i> * Qiu once again movingly and convincingly portrays the plight of an honest cop in a police state ... The suspense is palpable, and Qiu gives readers a chilling vision of life under authoritarian rule * <b><i>Publishers Weekly</b></i> on <b><i>Shanghai Redemption</b></i> * A complex, methodical police procedural as well as a multifaceted look at a powerful society in flux * <b><i>Kirkus Reviews</b></i> on <b><i>Shanghai Redemption</b></i> * Highly recommended for anyone interested in contemporary China * <b><i>Library Journal</b></i> on <b><i>Shanghai Redemption</b></i> *