A review by liberty_bojangles
A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong

4.0

Chief Inspector Chen has to deal with two cases at the same time. First, a body is found in a park with 18 axe wounds, and then he has to try to find a woman who has disappeared. The woman is the wife of a witness to a human-snuggling traffic, imprisoned in the USA. So, on top of all of this, Chen has to deal with a U.S. Marshall, Catherine Rohn, who has come to fetch the woman. Juggling between Chinese politics, being a good cop and dealing with the sentimental tension between him and Catherine, Chen has a lot on his plate. Full of Confucian references, Chinese history and Chinese food, a very enjoyed reading.

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