Jade Dragon Mountain

"On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he...

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Main Author: Hart, Elsa
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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