A review by mpetruce
A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong

3.0

Liked this one well enough. It was one of those books where you're reading and it doesn't seem close to a resolution even though you clearly have only 50 pages to go, then suddenly stuff wraps up. Not sure if some of the unresolved elements (and there are some big ones, at least for me) in this one get picked up again later. Still, as always, great fun to read. And Qiu brings Chen to St. Louis, where he lives and works. In fact, Chen visits the bookstore, or at least a fictionalized version of it, where I think I got a signed copy of The Mao Case (which I haven't read yet. Red Mandarin Dress is next).