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Qiu Xiaolong

Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a PhD degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy in 1989 he stayed on in St Louis where he still lives with his wife. Qiu’s sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry.All the titles in the Inspector Chen series, including Hold Your Breath, China, have been dramatized in BBC Radio 4 productions.

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The Judge Dee Investigation Series

The Shadow of the Empire

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The Inspector Chen mystery Series

Hold Your Breath, China

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Becoming Inspector Chen

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Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder

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Love and Murder in the Time of Covid

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The Conspiracies of the Empire

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