Flower Net: A Red Princess Mystery

Overview

"Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade."
-The Washington Post Book World

In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping's reign, the U.S. ambassador's son is found dead-his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China's political elite.

The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery-a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach.

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Author Information

Bio of Lisa See

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love,, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Flower Net(an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

• A good mystery with a splash of love story

  Posted September 28, 2009 by Sarah, Toronto

  I really enjoyed this novel. It was a contemporary look at the role of women in China and it also illustrated how US relations with the Chinese government are delicate at best. I enjoyed the main characters very much and I especially liked that they didn't spend the whole book longing for one another but were honest with their feelings. In the middle of all the sexual tension, there was a great whodunit and why whodunit that brought David and Hulan all over China and in the US.

Additional Info

Imprint

Random House

Filesize

630.77 KB

Number of Pages

352

eBook ISBN

9781588366672