num_pages: 320
description: David Rotenberg packs an uncommon nix of murder and theater into an exceptionally written fist novelZhong Fong is a young and ambitious homicide detective in modern Shanghai. His actress wife is rehearsing the leading role in a Chinese production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Assigned to the Dim Sum killings, a grisly series of murders, the young detective is tormented by doubts about his wife's love, and constant frustration in his investigation from his superiors. Inevitably, the various events converge in a heart-wrenching climax that leaves their lives changed forever.
language: English
title: The Shanghai Murders: Of Love And Ivory
titlecomplete: The Shanghai Murders: Of Love And Ivory
genres: Mystery Thriller, Crime, China, Fiction, Mystery, Canada
ratings_count: 89
series: Zhong Fong
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books