China Thrillers · Book 2
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.
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