The killing room
Author:
NoveList Series:
China novels volume 3.
Series:
China novels volume 3
Publisher:
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date:
2008
Edition:
1st U.S. ed
Language:
English
Description
When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai's serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li's on-again, off-again lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell, vulnerable and still grieving the death of her father, learns that the victims were subjected to "live" autopsies, she swallows her pride and joins Li Yan and Mei Ling in the hunt for the murderer. As Li, Campbell, and Mei Ling enter the arena of a sickening nemesis they are forced to confront each of their very worst nightmares. 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 southwest France with his wife, writer Janice Hally. "The Killing Room is a brisk, solidly plotted police procedural, with lots of gritty forensic details."-Mystery Scene Magazine "Li and Campbell's fine third case provides thrills, chills, and a window into current Chinese lifestyles."-Kirkus Reviews "Rewarding . . . May offers a little politics, a little romance, and a lot of autopsy details."-Publishers Weekly "Margaret's expertise is made more use of in this book than hitherto, and those who like discoveries from the mortuary slab will find this outing particularly satisfying. The urgency to find the culprit, the frustrations of the task, and the romantic entanglements mean that, as with earlier books in the series, there is barely a dull moment as the book rushes to an exciting conclusion."-Crime Review Praise for Peter May "Peter May is an author I'd follow to the ends of the earth."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "He is a terrific writer doing something different."-Mark Billingham, bestselling author of the Tom Thorne series "From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer."-Sophie Hannah, bestselling writer of The Monogram Murders
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