by Qiu Xiaolong · St Martins Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312550646
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«Don't Cry, Tai Lake» is the crime mystery novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by St Martins Pr in hardback (272 pages, in English).
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai police rests for a few days by Tai Lake. The calm is broken when the director of an industrial plant is found murdered; the main suspect is the leader of a local environmental group. Chen investigates against the backdrop of Tai Lake, polluted by toxic discharges.
It is the seventh installment in the Inspector Chen Cao series, published in 2012. The author, Qiu Xiaolong, is also a poet.
For followers of the Inspector Chen Cao series and for fans of crime fiction set in China.
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic. Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
