China Thrillers · Book 4
Snakehead
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781681440804
- Type
- novel
About this book
Snakehead arrived in 2002, two years later, at 400 pages, the fourth book in the series, keeping Li Yan and Margaret Campbell's relationship developing underneath the case-of-the-book structure that runs through the whole series.
Its place in China Thrillers
Snakehead is book 4 in the China Thrillers series. It follows The Killing Room. It is followed by The Runner. See the full China Thrillers reading order.
Before Peter May found fame with the Lewis Trilogy, he wrote six novels (plus a later novella) set inside Beijing's police bureaucracy, pairing Li Yan, a senior detective in the Ministry of Public Security, with Margaret Campbell, an American forensic pathologist who arrives to lecture on Western crime-scene techniques and ends up investigating alongside him. May researched the series with a rare degree of access to China during a period when the country was still largely closed to Western writers, and the books…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781681440804