Started: 1/31/10
Finished: 2/15/10
Year: 2010 (US release)
Pages: 336
Genre: Mystery
Grade: B
Reason for reading: review for MyShelf.com
Blurb (from back cover): "A top Chinese swimmer kills himself of the eve of an international event, shattering his country's hopes of victory against the Americans. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress, a scandal to be hushed up at the highest level. Tragic coincidence-or something more sinister?
"Beijing detective Li Yan is troubled to discover that they are not the first of China's athletes to die. He is so troubled that he brings American pathologist Margaret Campbell out of retirement to perform the autopsies. Could natural causes conceal the most unnatural deaths and threaten the future of international athletics?
"Battling to save his career and preparing for marriage, Li Yan knows the key to the case lies with a champion runner-the only member of the athletics team prepared to talk. But when the runner disappears, time starts running out in the race to catch the killer."
Opinion: Picked up basically where the last book of the series ended. There could have been more of a conclusion about a major plot idea but readers are left hanging to read the next one. Overall a good police novel. For a more complete review, please check out MyShelf.com in the upcoming months.
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