Death of a Red Heroine

US: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. Paperback. Good. Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief In spector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every l ead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all c osts. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ra nking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case and reass igned to another area.Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes and sac rifice his morals, or continue his investigation and risk dismissal from hi s job and from the party. Or worse.