Snakehead

Notes

Snakehead by Peter May is the fourth of his “China Thrillers”. Snakehead won the 2007 Prix Intramuros awarded by prisoners in jails in western France. They raved about it, though the French title, Cadavres Chinois à Houston — Chinese Corpses in Houston — fails to trip off the tongue quite spectacularly.

Publisher’s Synopsis

SUFFOCATED

A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror, and find out why.

SUMMONED

Detective Li Yan – an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell – has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal labourers.

SNAKEHEAD

Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians and migrants in Beijing, Washington and Texas – posing multiple countries one, very singular, threat.

Read a full review of Snakehead by Peter May at Mysterious Reviews.