China Thrillers · Book 3
The Killing Room
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 412
- ISBN-13
- 9780340768648
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Killing Room came out the same year, 2000, as the third entry, at 412 pages -- almost identical in length to The Fourth Sacrifice -- continuing Li and Margaret's investigations inside Beijing's Ministry of Public Security.
Its place in China Thrillers
The Killing Room is book 3 in the China Thrillers series. It follows The Fourth Sacrifice. It is followed by Snakehead. 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 9780340768648