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Liu Hulan, a Chinese police detective, is drawn back into her homeland when an old friend asks her to investigate the suspicious suicide of her daughter. She must go undercover in a newly built American toy factory tied to the firm of her lover, attorney David Stark. As Hulan digs deeper, she encounters a network of violence and conspiracy tied to her own buried past. Meanwhile, David faces a tangle of legal and ethical dilemmas that force him to decide where his greatest duty lies and whom to trust. The novel intertwines crime, mystery, and thriller elements, following the interplay between the U.S. and China and the complex relationships between a detective and an attorney.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Lisa See
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