The Fourth Sacrifice
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 411
- ISBN-13
- 9780340738375
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Fourth Sacrifice followed the next year, in 2000, running 411 pages, continuing Li Yan and Margaret Campbell's case-by-case partnership as Peter May's portrait of 1990s Beijing -- its politics, forensic science, and collision of tradition with rapid modernisation -- deepens.
Key facts about The Fourth Sacrifice
The Fourth Sacrifice is a novel by Peter May. Readers have had it since 1 January 2000. It runs to 411 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Fourth Sacrifice. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780340738375 to find the main one.
The Fourth Sacrifice is book 2 of 7 in the China Thrillers series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with The Firemaker (1999). The Ghost Marriage is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 19 May 2016.
Additionally, Peter May writes Enzo Files and Lewis Trilogy as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Black Loch is the latest published Peter May book on file, from 5 September 2024.
About Peter May
Peter May was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1951 and began his career as a journalist before moving into television, where he created and script-edited long-running Scottish drama series and became one of the youngest producers working in British TV. See every Peter May book in order.
Its place in China Thrillers
The Fourth Sacrifice is book 2 in the China Thrillers series. It follows The Firemaker. It is followed by The Killing Room. 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 9780340738375