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lirael's review
3.0
Writing is nice and characters decent (though the main character's poetic interludes kinda irritated me after awhile). Classic mystery style set in contemporary China.
dmendels's review
5.0
8th book in Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen series. I find them oddly addictive. Classic police procedural genre fiction, but great portrait of contemporary China from the eyes of a mid-level Communist party cadre (and poet/gourmet, of course).
cspiwak's review
3.0
Bit heavy on the poetry, but it added to a fairly standard plot & characters with a nice Chinese flavor
lnatal's review
3.0
From BBC radio 4 - Drama:
Poet and gourmand Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau returns in a new drama based on Qiu Xiaolong's crime novels. Chen's lakeside holiday is interrupted by the violent death of the boss of the Wuxi Number One Chemical Company. Will his blossoming relationship with a young environmental engineer compromise his covert investigation? Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.
Song composed by Neil Brand
Directed by Toby Swift
'Don't Cry, Tai Lake' is the seventh of Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen novels, all 9 of which have been dramatised for BBC Radio 4. They have sold over 1m copies and been translated into 20 languages.
"Witty and thrilling" The Daily Telegraph.
"A welcome alternative to Scandi-noir" The Observer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b277ld
Poet and gourmand Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau returns in a new drama based on Qiu Xiaolong's crime novels. Chen's lakeside holiday is interrupted by the violent death of the boss of the Wuxi Number One Chemical Company. Will his blossoming relationship with a young environmental engineer compromise his covert investigation? Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.
Song composed by Neil Brand
Directed by Toby Swift
'Don't Cry, Tai Lake' is the seventh of Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen novels, all 9 of which have been dramatised for BBC Radio 4. They have sold over 1m copies and been translated into 20 languages.
"Witty and thrilling" The Daily Telegraph.
"A welcome alternative to Scandi-noir" The Observer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b277ld
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