A review by bluestarfish
A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong

3.0

Inspector Chen is out and about in his second book and gets to travel around various bits of China as a police officer/tour guide for a US Marshal who has come over to help finish up a case to help tackle human smugglers. Things get trickier than anticipated when the woman at the centre of the case disappears. I could have quite happily taken half the number of proverbs and poetry lines and still believed Chen was a poet/police, and sometimes the changing China point get laboured a bit much, but it was still a very entertaining read.