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Chengdu, China: The vibrant capital of Sichuan Province is suddenly held hostage when a shocking manifesto is released by an anonymous vigilante known as Eumenides. It is a bold declaration of war against a corrupt legal system, with Eumenides acting as judge and executioner.
The public starts nominating potential targets, and before long hundreds of names are added to his kill list.
Eumenides’s cunning game has only just begun. First, he publishes a “death notice,” announcing his next target, the crimes for which the victim will be punished, and the date of the execution. The note is a deeply personal taunt to the police. Everyone knows who is going to die and when it is going to happen, but the police fail to stop the attack.
The 4/18 Task Force, an elite group of detectives and specialists, is assembled to catch Eumenides before he strikes again. In the process, they discover alarming connections to an eighteen-year-old cold case, and they find out that some members of the team have much to hide.
Death Notice (2018) is the first instalment in the "fiendishly inventive" high-concept police procedural Death Notice trilogy set in China.
Death Notice is translated from the Mandarin by Zac Haluza.
The second instalment, Fate, will be released on 3 September 2020.
About the author: Zhou Haohui is regarded as one of the top three suspense authors in China today. Zhou is the author of more than ten novels exploring the intersection of human nature, criminal motive, and the art of detection. His books include Killing Notice, The Evil Hypnotist, The Horrific Picture, and The Ghost Mountain. His works have been translated into French, English, Korean, and Japanese, and many have been adapted for film and television. Born in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Zhou received his master’s degree in engineering from Tsinghua University.
The Death Notice trilogy is China’s best selling and most popular work of suspense fiction to date. The online series based on these novels has received more than 2.4 billion views and achieved almost legendary status among Chinese online dramas.
About the translator: Zac Haluza is the translator of Death Notice (Doubleday, 2018), which was named a 2018 Crime Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and featured in articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
He began his translation career in 2014, when his translation of Hong Ke's Chui Niu, titled Shooting the Bull, won third place in the English category of that year's China International Translation Contest (organized by the State Council Information Office and China Writers Association).
Since then, Haluza has translated a variety of short and art criticism, game scripts, screenplays, novels, and non-fiction.
His published translations include Never Give Up on Yourself, the autobiography of the Chinese-American author Wang Yang; With Her Eyes, a short story by Hugo-Award-winning sci-fi author Liu Cixin, a series of non-fiction works on traditional Chinese art during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Death Notice.
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