The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson

Here’s a very different Beijing from all the glamour and fireworks of the Olympic Games. This is an insider’s view of the pressures of life and crime that plague ordinary Chinese people, and of the corruption of police and local authorities who exploit the population. Private investigator Song Ren is not allowed to investigate crimes, but he gets involved in the tragic case of a man who throws himself off a building, leaving behind the frozen body of his murdered child.

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