China Thrillers · Book 6
Chinese Whispers
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 393
- ISBN-13
- 9781590586082
- Type
- novel
About this book
Chinese Whispers closed out the six original novels in 2004, running 393 pages, seemingly ending the series until Peter May brought Li and Margaret back over a decade later in the novella The Ghost Marriage.
Its place in China Thrillers
Chinese Whispers is book 6 in the China Thrillers series. It follows The Runner. It is followed by The Ghost Marriage. 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 9781590586082