num_pages: 482
description: Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.
language: English
title: Death of a Red Heroine
titlecomplete: Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
characters: Yu Guangming, Chen Cao
genres: China, Asian Literature, Mystery, Asia, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 5613
places: Shanghai
series: Inspector Chen Cao
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Soho Crime