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A clever, gripping and original book, it is a brilliantly constructed novel of six interconnected stories, each featuring a different murder case solved by Inspector Kwan and Detective Lok over the last fifty years. It is also a moving story of two men, told through the conventions of detective fiction, and set against the shifting landscape of Hong Kong.

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Where there is murder, there is humanity.

Hong Kong´s greatest detective, Inspector Kwan, is dying. For the past fifty years he has been quietly solving crimes while the world changed around him. Now on his deathbed, his partner Detective Lok needs help with one final case.

Through the story of six different but interlocking murders, this bold and intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, jealousy and revenge, in one of the world´s most intriguing nations.

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´Five decades of Hong Kong policing stand behind the wise Inspector Kwan as he helps his protégé, Detective Lok, confound murderers and reveal much about life in their unique homeland´ Sunday Times Crime Club .

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Ho-Kei, Chan
Chan Ho-Kei was raised in Hong Kong. He has won the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award for his short stories, and In 2011 he won the Soji Shimada, the biggest mystery award in the Chinese world. He lives in Taiwan.

Tiang, Jeremy
Jeremy Tiang´s writing has appeared in the Guardian , Esquire and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore . He has written four plays, and translated more than ten books from the Chinese. He lives in New York.

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