Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Series #1) History_Gift_Guide —Nashville Tennessean

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Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Series #1) History_Gift_Guide —Nashville TennesseanQiu 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