New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in an unusual new series of thrillers which also explore the cultural differences between China and the United States. Set in contemporary China, this introduces Beijing detective Li Yan, and Margaret Campbell, an American forensic pathologist from Chicago on a six-week lecture trip to the University of Public Security in Beijing, as they track the killer of a government scientist - who had been involved in genetic food engineering - and whose horribly burned corpse is found smouldering in a Beijing park. On the night that the scientist is burned to death, there are two other murders in the city, both linked to his murder. INSCRIBED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-312342942.