The Fourth Sacrifice, Peter May
The Fourth Sacrifice, Peter May
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The Fourth Sacrifice

Author: Peter May

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: 13 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018


Synopsis

The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing.

Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.

The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.

About Peter May

Peter May has been covering and writing about sports for more than three decades, for the last several years as a Boston-based correspondent for the New York Times. At the Boston Globe, he specialized in covering the Boston Celtics and the NBA, earning numerous writing awards. He also covered three Super Bowls, two World Series, the 2004 Olympics, and a number of international basketball tournaments. He is a senior lecturer in journalism at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. May is the author of four books: The Big Three: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish: The Best Frontcourt in the History of Basketball; The Last Banner: The Story of the 1985-86 Boston Celtics, the NBA's Greatest Team of All-Time; Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams and Family with Kim Mulkey; and Top of The World: The Inside Story of the Boston Celtics' 2007-08 Championship Season.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Siobhan

The Fourth Sacrifice is the second of Peter May’s China Thrillers. Upon finishing The Firemaker, the first, I concluded it was another series I would need to follow. After finishing this one, I’m more than a little bit excited to get my hands on the rest of the series. I’m well and truly addicted, p......more

Goodreads review by David

The murder mystery and police procedural part is fine. But this book just dies when it gets to Margaret. She’s unpleasant /unlikeable anyway and the lengthy descriptions of her being romanced by the archaeologist/filmmaker sink the book. And as before there’s too much extraneous tourist description.......more


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Praise for Peter May:

"He is a terrific writer doing something different."—Mark Billingham

"From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer."—Sophie Hannah

"Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times