Catherine Sampson
Urgently in need for social events without a clear business angle, I joined this afternoon a book presentation at the Book Garden at Shanghai's Changle Lu, where suspense author Catherine Sampson was supposed to give a presentation about her latest thriller The Pool of Unease. (Not yet available at Amazon.)
As happens more often, the event was poorly prepared - I only got the invitation yesterday. Very few people turned up. Fortunately, that created a nice opportunity to ask all the questions you cannot ask when there are fifty people.
The thriller focuses on the murder of a British business man in Beijing through the eyes of both Robin (a foreign female reporter for a week in Beijing, modelled after Catherine) and private eye Song. Song was again modelled after an existing private detective, Catherine interviewed extensively.
The crime and suspense literature in the UK and the US (and as we learned from another attendee, also in Germany) uses a nice criminal case to describe current affairs, situations and developments. The book remains of course fiction, but fiction that is rooted very well in today's Chinese society.
Catherine Sampson has a weblog and since she promised there would be an rss-feed soon, I might as well give you the link to it.
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