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Book SynopsisThe second book in China's bestselling crime series to date. THE LAW IS WEAK Last week, the vigilante killer who terrified and thrilled the city of Chengdu with his
'death notices' performed his own execution to escape capture by the police. I OFFER REAL JUSTICE But when two students are violently murdered, the only clue left by the killer is a death notice. The executioner?
Eumenides. Now Captain Pei Tao and his task force face a terrifying prospect: that Eumenides left a protégé to carry on his work. NOW MEET YOUR FATE Once again, Eumenides is one step ahead of their investigation – but this time, it's worse. Because this time, someone on the
inside is helping him. Can Pei and his team root out the mole, and hunt down their new opponent? Or are they doomed to watch history repeat itself? Gripping, explosive and fiendishly inventive,
Fate is the second instalment in the
Death Notice trilogy: the Chinese crime-writing phenomenon and a
Sunday Times thriller of the year. Reviews for
Death Notice: 'Fiendishly inventive'
Wall Street Journal 'Extraordinary'
Sunday Times 'A perfect cat-and-mouse killer'
Book RiotTrade ReviewA 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 *
