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Death of a Red Heroine is the first in the Inspector Chen series by Qiu Xiaolong. Per SKYM, it won or was a finalist for several awards. It has just dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. I read the first four or five titles in this series back in DTB days and very much enjoyed them, so am happy to see this one on sale. Sadly a couple of the rest are $7.99 and the others are $9.99 and up - way too much for me to spend for backlist titles. Not quite sure what publishers are thinking - at $2.99, I'd buy the lot even though I have several in DTB, and up to $4.99, I'd buy the ones I don't have.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Heroine.../dp/B004HYHA0S

Spoiler:

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.

A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.