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Qiu Xiaolong

Travel This Summer Without Leaving Your Beach Chair

By Crime HQ

July 12, 2022

Introduction by Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of The Drowning Sea, part of the Maggie D’Arcy Mystery Series set in Ireland When I’m traveling, my favorite moments—and memories—are those when I suddenly see a place in a way I couldn’t have if I’d stuck to the tourist quarter or only visited the highlights in the guidebook.…

The Armchair Detective: International Crime Fiction

By Jeannette de Beauvoir

May 19, 2016

Everyone tends to read about the familiar; I’m never as contented as when I am curled up with an English country-house murder mystery, for example. But, challenging yourself to trying something new could open up—literally—a whole new world. Just think about the places you could travel via mystery! From the remote stretches of the Arctic…

Now Win This!: 3×3 Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

January 20, 2015

The best things in life come in threes, and this sweepstakes proves it with a contemporary high-tech Swedish trilogy, three of the Clifton Chronicles, set in the U.K. in the aftermath of WWI, and if that weren’t enough, another bonus trifecta of internationally celebrated crime novels! Click here to enter for a chance to win!…

Fresh Meat: Enigma Of China by Qiu Xiaolong

By Doreen Sheridan

June 9, 2013

Enigma Of China by Qiu Xiaolong, the 8th book in the Inspector Chen series, involves political machinations in Shanghai (available June 18, 2013). China is a country in flux, with a government determined to retain its communist heritage while also accommodating demands from a technologically advanced citizenry for increased personal liberties. These contradictory impulses birthed…

Happy Year of the Dragon! Gong Xi Fa Ca!

By Crime HQ

January 23, 2012

We were informed that “Gong Xi Fa Ca” is a traditional New Year’s greeting in Mandarin that means “Wishing you prosperity.” If it means, instead, “Let the web searcher beware,” very sorry about that. 2012 is the year of the dragon, according to the 12-year horoscopic cycle of animals, but not just a dragon, a…

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