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Forthcoming, due May

The Firemaker

Due .
riverrun, 560 pages.
ISBN: 9781529449259


Regular price £10.99 GBP
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This title will be published on . It will be available for pre-order from Gumshoe Books six weeks in advance of publication.


A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case.

The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation, and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly.

An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead.

A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites: exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil - a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others.

The Firemaker was first published in 1999.


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