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341 pages, Hardcover
First published August 21, 2018
Li Du, former royal librarian and former exile, has returned to Beijing, but not to his beloved library. Instead, he’s working as a clerk in the giant imperial bureaucracy. When his superior is called to investigate a double murder, Li Du goes along to take notes. He is convinced that the deaths are more complicated than their “obvious” circumstances make them appear. His desire to uncover the truth leads him to dangerous discoveries that affect not only the current case, but also the reasons for his exile nine years earlier.This was actually the first book in this series that I saw, on the New Books shelf in my library back in 2018. The title grabbed me, but when I read the flap, I realized that I needed to read the other two books first.