The fourth sacrifice

ISBN: 9781786484451
Physical Description: print 499 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd., 2017.
Copyright: &copy;2000.

May, Peter 1951- (author.).

Summary: 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 that have taken place in Beijing. Detective Li Yan is determined to discover 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. The polarity that once attracted Li and Campbell eventually pulls them back into partnerships. Yet the closer they are drawn to the truth, the nearer they come to a killer prepared to use extreme force to conceal it.