London: Collins Crime / HarperCollins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel, set in modern China, featuring Beijing police detective Wang Anzhuang, now newly married. He and wife go the countryside to visit the village where Wang was born, but an initial warm welcome quickly vanishes when a local party dignitary is found bludgeoned to death and long-buried secrets emerge from the violent past. Glossary and list of historical characters. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-002325667.