Williams, Liz -- Snake Agent
It's a dark night in the Chinese afterlife and everybody's got a small
flaw in his character. No, the book doesn't have that line, but it
might as well. Detective-Inspector Chen doesn't live in Hell, but
sometimes he has to go there on police business. The afterlife
bureacracy is just as mucked-up as the mundane one, which makes this
both perfect Chinese myth and perfect noir procedural. My only
complaint is that Williams tries to be funny and doesn't quite know
how. Hopefully she'll get better at that in the sequels.
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