Love and Murder in the Time of Covid, Qiu Xiaolong
Love and Murder in the Time of Covid, Qiu Xiaolong
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Love and Murder in the Time of Covid

Author: Qiu Xiaolong

Narrator: David Shih

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/04/2023


Synopsis

The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths caused not by Covid, but by the CCP’s inhuman ‘zero Covid’ policy.

Chen is debating whether to translate the ‘Wuhan File’—a diary of life during the Wuhan disaster smuggled to him by a close friend—and expose the CCP’s secrets to the world when to his surprise he is summoned by a high-level party cadre to help investigate a series of murders near a local Shanghai hospital.

Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance.

And as he works, determined to uncover the truth, no matter what, he risks everything by deciding to translate the Wuhan Files. For one thing is true in China: you must be absolutely loyal to the Party. Otherwise, you are considered absolutely disloyal, and the consequences are dark indeed …

About Qiu Xiaolong

Qiu Xiaolong is a poet and the author of several novels featuring Inspector Chen, as well as Years of Red Dust, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010. Born and raised in Shanghai, Qiu lives with his family in St. Louis, Missouri.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paula on July 06, 2023

More political statement than mystery,which is not altogether a bad thing as China´s Covid policy (as so much else) was atrocious,but it´s very-VERY-repetitive,as if the reader couldn´t be trusted to understand. An extra star for the good times I´ve had with Inspector Chen.......more

Goodreads review by Saltygalreads on May 05, 2023

I was immediately intrigued by the title of this novel: Love and Murder in the Time of Covid. It conjures visions of surreptitious sleuthing in narrow lanes under the watchful eye of the CCP, and I wasn’t far wrong. Former Chief Inspector Chen Cao is “recruited” to investigate a series of violent mur......more

Goodreads review by Keila (speedreadstagram) on June 07, 2023

The Covid crisis is at its peak in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Government is using the pandemic as an excuse to put Chinese people under surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths that aren’t covid related. When he starts investigating a series of mur......more