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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 in 1989 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. All the titles in the Inspector Chen series, including Hold Your Breath, China, have been dramatized in BBC Radio 4 productions. www.qiuxiaolong.com
Fans of mysteries about honest cops working for compromised regimes won't want to miss this one-- Library Journal Starred Review of Hold your Breath, China Fascinating ... Xiaolong writes with both urgency and grace about modern China in another well-crafted mystery-- Booklist Starred Review of Hold Your Breath, China Gripping ... A scathing indictment of contemporary China-- Booklist on Becoming Inspector Chen Inspector Chen's 10th mystery effectively uses the genre to explore China's current pollution crisis-- Kirkus Reviews on Hold Your Breath, China Qiu's stylish hybrid is half fictional literary memoir and half crisp whodunit-- Kirkus Reviews on Becoming Inspector Chen While series fans will be delighted at the background Qiu provides, this is an accessible starting point for newcomers ... in his superior 11th novel featuring Shanghai policeman and poet Chen Cao-- Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Becoming Inspector Chen
