Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Audiobook

Death of a Red Heroine

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that ... Read more

$27.09 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

A Loyal Character Dancer

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

12 hours 19 min

Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role ... Read more

$24.63 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

When Red Is Black

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is ... Read more

$22.16 CAD

Also available as: eBook

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

A Corpse in the Koryo

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.These seen simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old ... Read more

$25.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.These seen simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old
... Read more
Audiobook

Hidden Moon

An Inspector O Novel

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

In A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church introduced readers to one of the most unique detectives to appear in print in years—the elusive Inspector O. The stunning mystery was named one of the best mystery/thrillers of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune for its beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a terrain Church knows by heart.And now the Inspector is back.In Hidden Moon, Inspector O ... Read more

$25.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church introduced readers to one of the most unique detectives to appear in print in years—the elusive Inspector O. The stunning mystery was named one of the best mystery/thrillers of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune for its beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a terrain Church knows by heart.And now the Inspector is back.In Hidden Moon, Inspector O
... Read more
Audiobook

Bamboo and Blood

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective—the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.Now the inspector returns.In the winter of 1997, ... Read more

$25.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective—the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.Now the inspector returns.In the winter of 1997,
... Read more
Audiobook

The Eye of Jade

by Diane Wei Liang ...

Narrated by Cindy Cheung ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Mei Wang Mysteries
Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

Modern, independent Mei Wang runs her own PI business in Beijing; she even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. When a family friend asks her to locate a Han dynasty jade of great value that was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards seized many relics, her investigation reveals a story that has more to do with the past and her own ... Read more

$24.58 CAD

Modern, independent Mei Wang runs her own PI business in Beijing; she even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. When a family friend asks her to locate a Han dynasty jade of great value that was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards seized many relics, her investigation reveals a story that has more to do with the past and her own
... Read more
Audiobook

The Man with the Baltic Stare

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector ... Read more

$25.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector
... Read more
Audiobook

Slash and Burn

by Colin Cotterill ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series
Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’ national coroner—a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after ... Read more

$21.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’ national coroner—a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Evil and the Mask

by Fuminori Nakamura ...

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

Unabridged

9 hours 11 min

The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief—another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity—and the powerful human instinct to resist evil.When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his ... Read more

$25.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief—another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity—and the powerful human instinct to resist evil.When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Brothers

by Yu Hua ...

Narrated by Louis Changchien ...

Unabridged

28 hours 53 min

Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture ... Read more

$44.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture
... Read more
Audiobook

Last Winter, We Parted

by Fuminori Nakamura ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin, P. J. Ochlan, Richard Powers ...

Unabridged

4 hours 52 min

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity.A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account of the case, from its bizarre and grisly details to ... Read more

$20.88 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity.A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account of the case, from its bizarre and grisly details to
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Inspector Chen Audiobook Series

Death of a Red Heroine

A Loyal Character Dancer

When Red Is Black

People who read these also enjoyed

A Corpse in the Koryo

Hidden Moon

Bamboo and Blood

The Eye of Jade

The Man with the Baltic Stare

Slash and Burn

Evil and the Mask

Brothers

Last Winter, We Parted

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Inspector Chen Audiobook Series

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed