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Title details for 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders by Rozlan Mohd Noor - Available

21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders

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by Rozlan Mohd Noor
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21 Immortals introduces an exciting new voice in international noir—for readers of Jo Nesbø, Keigo Higashino, and John Burdett.
Inspector Mislan Latif's final case after a long night's shift could be his last. Called to a wealthy neighborhood of Kuala Lumpur, he finds a crime scene unlike any he has encountered before: pristine, the victims a family seated at dinner, Mona Lisa smiles fixed to their faces, frozen mid-gesture around the traditional Chinese New Year dish of yee sang, signifying prosperity, longevity, many good things—though it's not that time of year. It makes an eerie, chilling tableau of death, but signifying what? The celebrity of the father, fashion magnate Robert Tham, has already drawn a media throng, and soon the upper echelons of the police have taken an interest, bringing pressure to solve the crime quickly.
But every clue points to another unknown. This isn't the primary scene: where is it? What are the motives of Tham's younger business partner, the attractive Miss Irene? What of his connections to an old-school criminal gang and the triads? With rival units of the police seeking to co-opt and, he suspects, bury the case, Inspector Mislan's investigation takes him to every level of this modern, multi-ethnic, American-pop-culture-influenced society, to where moneyed power and influence demand their say. Maverick, hard-boiled yet tender, a single father raising a young child, Mislan must rely on his team—and the politically savvy woman leading Major Crimes who is his boss—to support, protect him from the corruption above, and help find a way to ensure the course of justice.

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    Inspector Mislan

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  • Release date

    August 18, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781950691654

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      • ISBN: 9781950691654
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    • English

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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2020
      In an upscale Kuala Lumpur neighborhood, the Tham family's bodies are discovered, arranged in a horrific tableau around a traditional New Year's feast. If this were an American procedural, the story would shift quickly into serial-killer territory, but in Kuala Lumpur, Inspector Mislan Latif turns to secret societies, the lords of Malaysia's underworld. Fashion mogul Robert Tham, it turns out, informed on his secret-society bosses in the 1995 sweep that sent scores of gang members to prison. Puzzling clues emerge: the victims were killed with cyanide gas pumped into their car, which security cameras reveal was returned to Tham's office by a mysterious woman. And the police department's notoriously connected brass is simultaneously demanding the case's rapid resolution and obstructing Mislan's investigation. This English-language debut of an award-winning series takes readers to a darker, edgier Malaysia than that of Shamini Flint's Inspector Singh cozies; fans of John Burdett and Timothy Hallinan will be drawn to the gritty KL streets and to Mislan's disregard for politics as he pursues justice.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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