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'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland
'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books

In the second novel in the China series, Li Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, on the trail of a killer reenacting a series of gruesome rituals

THE SECOND OPINION

The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell: this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions that have taken place in Beijing.

THE THIRD DEGREE

Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell.

THE FOURTH SACRIFICE

The polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell eventually pulls them back into partnership. Yet the closer they are drawn to the truth, the nearer they come to a killer prepared to use extreme force to conceal it.

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"A true pleasure to read." - Guardian

"Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." - New York Times

"One of the best regarded crime series of recent years." - Independent, on the Lewis trilogy

"May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships." - Sunday Times

"Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization." - Independent

"Dark, exciting and atmospheric." - Scotland on Sunday

"Powerful and authentic." - Glasgow Sunday Herald