The Mystery of Moutai (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496055491)

A teenager returns home from school to find a gruesome scene: the apartment he shares with his mother, Shao Mei, in Boston's Chinatown has been ransacked and she is dead. There is a bottle of Moutai-the most exotic and expensive Chinese liquor-left at the scene and traces of rat poison in one of the two shot glasses on the kitchen counter. This was evidently a homicide, but who could possibly be the killer? Ann Lee and Fang Chen, close friends of the victim, team up with the Boston police to solve this mystifying crime: why would anyone want to murder a harmless middle-aged woman, one who worked as an unassuming mailroom clerk, with no money, no connections, and presumably, no enemies? Realizing that important clues behind the motive may be buried deep in the victim's past, they travel to Beijing, where Shao Mei spent more than fifty years of her life. While there, surrounded by the antiquities of China's rich and complex history, they stumble unwittingly into a cobweb of mystery and danger. Fearing for their lives but determined to press on, they end up unearthing a scandal more deceptive and far-reaching than either could have imagined.

Author: G. X. Chen
ISBN-10: 1496055497
ISBN-13: 9781496055491
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2014
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014