Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Series #1) History_Gift_Guide Together with a gallant cast

Together with a gallant cast

but too often aligned with the country's elites

But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive

—Nashville Tennessean

Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Series #1) History_Gift_Guide Together with a gallant castQiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young national model worker, renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around