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Chinese Whispers
The suspenseful edge-of-your-seat finale of the crime thriller saga (The China Thrillers Book 6)
Series: China Thrillers
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See moreThe Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the thrilling final episode of the series
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GRUESOME MURDERS
His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him.
FEARSOME LETTERS
Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions.
Chinese Whispers
There's no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history.
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Chinese Whispers
GRUESOME MURDERS His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. FEARSOME LETTERS Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions. Chinese Whispers There's no way Li can...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday -
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Chinese Whispers by Peter May is praised as a gripping and fast-paced novel, delivering thriller elements that keep readers on edge. It manages to entertain while offering intriguing insights into its setting and themes.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784295349
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 November 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: riverrun
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 360g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.Also by Peter May
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