Download or read book The Hua Shan Hospital Murders written by David Charles Rotenberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Zhong Fong has regained his position as head of Special Investigations in the Shanghai district. He is back in the city that he loves with his new wife and baby girl, Xiao Ming. All seems under control until one of Shanghai's state run abortion clinics explodes in a ball of fire. A note is left in English. Then a second abortion clinic is attacked and a second note is left. This one says: "This blasphemy will stop-the light will come." Fong's investigation leads him deep into the evil caverns of the human heart-a place that Fong knows all too well.
Download or read book China Mysteries written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors. This work examines more than a hundred China mysteries—many describing and analyzing social and economic changes at the center of modern life in China—to provide a brief history of the genre and analyze the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries, including their attention to matters of location, social content, characterization, history, and biography. It also highlights the role of “information” acquisition as a motivation for readers and authors of popular fiction, which has become a topic of discussion in Chinese literature studies. With its timely commentary on Sino-Western relations as presented through crime fiction, China Mysteries will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese literature and culture, as well as fans of crime novels and others who are curious about the global dimensions of the genre and how it complicates our understanding of “world literature.”
Download or read book The Lake Ching Murders written by David Rotenberg and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Zhong Fong, former head of special investigations with the Shanghai police, has been branded a traitor and exiled to a sleepy village in northwestern China. But his isolation comes to an abrupt end when two Party officials whisk him away in the middle of the night. They need him, they say, to investigate the murders of seventeen foreign businessmen aboard a ship on Lake Ching. Fong hopes this is his chance to clear his name. He soon finds, however, that the case may be more complicated, and more perilous, than it first appeared.
Download or read book A Murder of Crows written by David Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Decker Roberts' last run in with the NSA, he's been trying to remain off the radar, searching for his estranged son. His synaesthetic abilities, once a lucrative gift, are increasingly becoming a liability. When a vicious attack wipes out the best and brightest of America's young minds, devastating the country's future, Decker is forced to step out of the shadows and help track down the killer. And as the hunt brings him in contact with other people of "his kind, " Decker begins to realize that there may be depths to his gifts that he had never even imagined. Meanwhile, several parties are secretly tracking the progress of Decker's son, Seth, trying to determine if he has the same unique gift as his father. Decker is determined to go to any lengths to find his son, but along the way he will have to face down enemies, both old and new, as well as struggle with whether his son even wants to be found.
Download or read book The Glass House written by David Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Decker's estranged son, Seth, is kidnapped, it sets in motion a mysterious and unstoppable chain of events. Seth is the key to everyone's plans. His inherited "gifts" are more powerful than his father's, and there are some who will do anything to control them.
Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Download or read book Shanghai written by David Rotenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his last breath, China’s First Emperor, Q’in She Huang, entrusts his followers with a sacred task. Scenes intricately carved into a narwhal tusk show the future of a city “at the Bend in the River,” and The Emperor’s chosen three—his favourite concubine, head Confucian, and personal bodyguard —must bring these prophecies to life by passing their traditions on for generations. Centuries later, the descendents of the Emperor’s chosen confidantes observe as Shanghai is invaded by opium traders and missionaries from Europe, America, and the Middle East. Of them all, two families—locked in a rivalry that will last for generations—will be central to the evolution of the city. As history marches on, locals and foreign interlopers clash and intertwine; their combined fates shaping what will become the centrepiece of the new China—Shanghai.
Download or read book The Placebo Effect written by David Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you always knew when someone was telling the truth, in any situation. What would you do? What questions would you ask? Who could you trust? Decker Roberts knows, without a shadow of doubt, if someone is telling the truth. So far, he's kept his gift pretty quiet. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his identity secret from the companies that hire him to find out the truth. But Decker's carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. His house burns down, he's accused of arson, framed for insurance fraud, and his credit cards are cancelled. Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he's been targeted. There's also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts' identities, real and false. How will Decker find out which truth was so dangerous it put his life in danger? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? David needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.
Download or read book Catalog of the Gerald K Stone Collection of Judaica written by Gerald K. Stone and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Fiction written by Sharron Smith and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover some of the great Canadian authors and titles you've been missing. This guide describes and organizes according to reading interests more than 500 of the best contemporary Canadian fiction titles available today. Canadian fiction offers a wealth of diverse pleasures to readers, from high-toned literary works to down-and-dirty genre fiction. However, apart from the big names and superstars, many of these authors are not well known outside of Canada. Designed to help readers' advisors in the United States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries make informed reading recommendations to their patrons, this guide provides readers' advisors and readers with an overview of Canadian fiction, covering more than 650 popular titles—mainstream and genre fiction— most published within the past decade. The guide categorizes mainstream titles according to primary appeal features (language, character, setting, and story), and identifies the secondary appeal when there is one. Genre fiction, covered in a separate section, is organized according to standard genres (fantasy, romance, etc.), with subdivisions for subgenres and themes. For each title bibliographic information and a brief annotation is provided. Subjects are listed, along with awards, and an indication of whether the title is appropriate for book groups. A read on section with references to some 2,400 titles, leads you to titles with similar features. Indexes cover author/title and subject (including awards, genre, series character names). An appendix contains information on Canadian Book Awards. A readers' advisory guide and reference tool, this book is also an important aid for collection development.
Download or read book The Hua Shan Hospital Murders written by David Rotenberg and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Zhong Fong has regained his position as head of Special Investigations in the Shanghai district. He is back in the city that he loves with his new wife and baby girl. All seems to be going smoothly - until one of Shanghai's state-run abortion clinics explodes in a ball of flame. A note is left in English. Then a second clinic is attacked, and a second note is found. It reads, 'This blasphemy will stop - the light will come.' Fong's investigation of the bombings will lead him deep into a place he knows all too well: the deepest recesses of the human heart. 'A sophisticated international mystery.' The National Post 'Rotenberg's finest so far.' The Globe & Mail 'Rotenberg's Shanghai is a place full of effective, unexpected entertainment.' Publisher's Weekly
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shanghai Murders written by David Rotenberg and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a busy Shanghai alley, the body of an American police officer is found, dismembered and arranged in bizarre fashion. The murder appears to be the work of a trained assassin with a deadly message to send. And before long, he leaves another: the body of an African diplomat, as skilfully carved up as the first. Assigned to track the killer is homicide detective Zhong Fong. Haunted by the deaths of his actress wife and unborn child, Fong throws himself into the case. But his concentration is disrupted, first by the arrival of his late wife's lover, and then by the realisation that he may be the killer's next target. As he hunts for the murderer, Fong must confront his own secrets - and those of his rapidly changing city. ''''''''An extraordinarily accomplished mystery.'''''''' Booklist.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Haunted Places written by Jeff Belanger and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring new listings and new information on existing haunts, thhis book offers supernatural tourists a guide to points of interest through the eyes of the world's leading ghost hunters.
Download or read book Deadly Scholarship written by Edwin Chen and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 1, 1991, the scene: a serene Midwestern college campus, the University of Iowa, the last place one would expect mass murder to occur. And yet, incredibly, it happens. After the smoke has cleared, six people are dead, one is paralyzed for life, and there are many questions that need to be answered. This is no "ordinary" drive-by shooting at a fast food restaurant, nor is it the case of a disgruntled former employee seeking revenge on his supervisors. These tragic murders have been committed by a brilliant Chinese graduate exchange student, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Iowa's prestigious Department of Physics and Astronomy. Among the dead is another top student, three faculty members, and one of the university's associate vice presidents, whose duties, ironically, included dealing with student grievances - just like the ones apparently harbored by the murderer. Deadly Scholarship, written by award-winning Los Angeles Times journalist Edwin Chen, seeks to answer the questions in the case. As the author delves into the lives of the victims and the murderer to determine why this tragedy ever happened, we learn of the cut-throat competition among foreign scholars on America's campuses. Few people can imagine the fierce pressure brought to bear by state and family on these young people far from home, and their hellish lives as they struggle to achieve more than most would consider humanly possible. The book hauntingly details how real people found themselves swept up in a spiraling web of ambition, achievement, exploitation, despair, and death that in the end spared none of them.
Download or read book Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission written by Marshall Broomhall and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
