Nominee · Locus Awards 2007
The Demon and the City
by Liz Williams
2006 novel by Liz Williams
The second Detective Inspector Chen novel traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fantasy
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