Used book – Death of a Red Heroine, Qiu Xiaolong, Fanchita Gonzalez Batlle

Shanghai 1990. The body of a young woman is found in a canal by two young fishermen. For the ambitious Chief Inspector Chen and his deputy Inspector Yu, the investigation quickly becomes complicated when they discover the identity of the deceased. She is Hongying, a National Model Worker. A seemingly perfect and solitary girl who was nevertheless raped and strangled. Who is hiding behind this mask of perfection and why was the exemplary young communist murdered? Chen and Yu will learn this the hard way, because in Shanghai, one can be a respected comrade while concealing... disturbing morals. A fascinating crime novel from the Celestial Empire, led with humor, poetry, gourmandise, and a very particular sense of morality.