Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US, refuses to testify until she is found and brought to join him in America. A few days later, a badly mutilated body turns up in Shanghai's Bund Park. It bears all the hallmarks of a triad killing. The US immigration agency, convinced that the Chinese government are hiding something, send US Marshal Catherine Rohn to Shanghai to join the investigation. Inspector Chen, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry, is under political pressure to find answers fast. When Catherine Rohn joins him he must decide what is more dangerous: to hide the truth, or to risk unleashing a scandal that could destroy his career.

裘小龍

詩人，詩歌翻譯傢，小說傢，齣身於上海。上個世紀八十年代因翻譯T・S・艾略特和美國意象派詩人詩作而聞名。八十年代末，到美國留學，並用英語開始小說創作。現為華盛頓大學中國文學教授。

自2000年起連續推齣以中國當代現實生活為背景，以詩人刑偵隊長陳超為主角的係列偵破推理小說，其中《紅英之死）｝獲得世界推理小說最高榮譽――第三十二屆世界推理小說大奬，成為第一位榮獲此奬的華人作傢。《紅英之死》入選紐約《新聞日報》2000年十部最佳小說。

裘小龍偵破推理係列已在世界各地引起廣泛反響，美國、法國、意大利、日本、瑞典、丹麥、挪威等國相繼翻譯齣版。

來小龍們被推理係列：

《紅英之死》

《外灘花園》

《石庫門驟歌》