description: On a January morning in Beijing, a child skating on a frozen lake finds the corpse of a white man under the ice. Liu Hulan, a female detective, is assigned to head what will be a delicate investigation, for the murder victim is the son of the American Ambassador. Thousands of miles away, David Stark, an assistant US attorney, boards the China Peony, a barely seaworthy freighter carrying hundreds of illegal immigrants to America. On board he finds the badly decomposed body of "Red Prince", the son of one of China's top officials. The murders appear to be unconnected until rare plant fibers are found coating the respiratory tracts of both victims and the Chinese and Americans agree to work together.
language: English
title: The Flower Net
titlecomplete: The Flower Net (Red Princess, #1)
characters: David Stark, Liu Hulan
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Asian Literature, China, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Asia, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 6529
places: Beijing, China
series: Red Princess
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Isis