Qiu Xiaolong
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situationâ€”a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine.Â  Now heâ€™s a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the top politic position in the police department, while being one of most respected policeman in the department. Which is why heâ€™s brought in by the Party to sign off on the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng.Â ,Zhou Kengâ€”a trusted princeling, son of a major party memberâ€”was head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee when a number of his corrupt practices were exposed on the internet.Â  Removed from his position and placed into extra-legal detention, Zhou apparently hanged himself while under guard.Â  While the Party is anxious to have Zhouâ€™s death declared a suicide, and for the renowned Chief Inspector Chen to sign off on that conclusion, the sequence of events donâ€™t quite add up.Â Now Chen will have to decide what to doâ€”investigate the death as a possible homicide and risk angering unseen powerful people, or seek the justice that his position requires him to strive for.
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