The Demon And The City: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel: The Detective Inspector Chen Novels, Book Two: 2 - Softcover

Williams, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597801119 ISBN 13: 9781597801119

Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2008

Synopsis

When Chen goes on holiday, his demonic partner Zhu Irzh finds himself alone in Singapore Three. The missing body of a brutally murdered socialite and the strange experiments of a well-connected, beautiful, young heiress leads Zhu into a maze of death and corruption. Chen returns to the city just as Zhu's baser instincts seem to be getting the better of him. While the rest of the police department thinks the worst of Zhu, Chen suspects something more malignant, particularly when the forces of Heaven begin manifesting themselves in Singapore Three, taking sides and leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

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About this title

Review:

“Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.” —Publishers Weekly   
“A smooth, sharp read. [Williams] turns the conventions of good and evil on their ear and gives them a sharp boot in the rear.” —Jay Lake, author of Rocket Science
“Uniquely imaginative . . . satisfyingly suspenseful.” —Booklist

About the Author:

Liz Williams is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England, where she is codirector of a witchcraft supply business. The author of seventeen novels and over one hundred short stories, she has been published by Bantam Spectra and Night Shade Books in the US, and by Tor Macmillan in the UK. She was a frequent contributor to Realms of Fantasy, and her writing appears regularly in Asimov's and other magazines. She is the secretary of the Milford SF Writers' Workshop and teaches creative writing and history of science fiction. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1597801119
• ISBN 13: 9781597801119
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384