Description
Based on China's most famous online crime serial, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
About the Author
Zhou Haohui was born in 1977 and lives in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. His Death Notice trilogy is China's bestselling crime series. An online TV drama based on the novels has received more than 2.4 billion views, making it one of China's most popular online shows ever. Zac Haluza is the translator of the Death Notice series. He began his translation career in 2014, when his translation of Shooting the Bull won third place in the English category of that year's China International Translation Contest. His other published translations include Never Give Up on Yourself and a short story by Hugo-Award-winning sci-fi author Liu Cixin.
Reviews
A creepy, inventive tale about a Chinese serial killer who crowdsources his victims * Independent *
Haohui continues to wow with his sweeping yet detail-oriented take on the procedural, sure to please fans of Scandi noir and Italian neorealist detective fiction * Crime Reads *
PRAISE FOR DEATH NOTICE: 'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Haohui's Death Notice. Extraordinary' Sunday Times. 'A compulsive and particularly ingenious read and a first-class mystery' Crime Time. 'Fiendishly inventive' Wall Street Journal. 'A perfect cat-and-mouse killer' * Book Riot *
Book Information
ISBN 9781838930820
Author Zhou Haohui
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC