Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery (The Red Princess Mysteries)
by By See, Lisa
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , General

In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in   charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public   Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way.   Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country’s distant past and her   own recent history. The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends   suddenly in bloodshed, and leads to the apparent murder of an American archaeologist,   which officials want to keep quiet. And haunting Hulan’s investigation is the possible   theft of ancient dragon bones that might alter the history of civilization itself. Getting to the bottom of ever-spiraling events, Hulan unearths more scandals, confronts   more murderers, and revives tragic memories that shake her tormented marriage to   its core. In the end, she solves a mystery as big, unruly, and complex as China itself.Praise for Dragon Bones“Stays with you long after the conventional thriller is forgotten.”—The Washington Post Book World“Lisa  See is one of the classier practitioners of . . . the international  thriller. . . . She draws her characters . . . with convincing depth,  and offers up documentary social detail that reeks of freshly raked  muck. See’s China is as vivid as Upton Sinclair’s Chicago.”—The New York Times Book Review