The Ghost Marriage, Peter May
The Ghost Marriage, Peter May
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The Ghost Marriage
A compact return to the thrilling crime series (A China Thriller Novella)

Author: Peter May

Series: China Thrillers #7

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: 1 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: riverrun

Published: 03/31/2017


Synopsis

LI YAN AND MARGARET CAMPBELL RETURN IN A NEW STORY, YEARS AFTER THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION OF CHINESE WHISPERS.

'I saw your missing girl at a ghost wedding last week. She was the bride.'

It has been a whirlwind few years for Li Yan and Margaret Campbell. Nowadays, both are busy juggling their huge professional workloads - Li as the newly promoted chief of Beijing's serious crime squad, and Campbell as lecturer at the University of Public Security - with the day-to-day raising of their young son, Li Jon.

When a desperate mother appeals to Campbell's own maternal instincts, Li agrees to look into the disappearance of a 17-year-old Beijing girl, Jiang Meilin.

Yet Li's investigation soon turns from a favour into a full-scale murder enquiry. And when he receives an anonymous note he learns Jiang Meilin's death is tied to a dangerous underground trade, and a dark marital rite from China's past.

(P)2017 Quercus Editions Limited

About Peter May

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

This short novel is the 7th book in the China Thrillers series which I had previously read and enjoyed. I have previously stated that I am not a big fan of short stories but due to the fact I had read the previous books in the series felt duty bound to read it. I found this series in general very good......more

A short story with Li Yan and Margaret Campbell from The China Thrillers as they investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl in Beijing.......more

An excellent little short story, but having spent so much time with these characters over 6 full length novels, it is hard not wanting more. And I'm coming in right off the previous novel; I can only imagine how those who returned to these characters after six presumably long years felt.......more