Yan & Campbell

Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on his hands. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions about the dead man..the ones that lead to the terrifying truth.  Book 1 of series.

The first victims are drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. The fourth victim is an American diplomat. But the closer Margaret Campbell and Li Yan come to the truth behind the executions, the more dangerously close they come to a killer who is prepared to sacrifice anyone to conceal it.  Book 2 of series

When the mutilated and dismembered bodies of eighteen women are discovered in Shanghai, Detective Li Yan is sent to establish if the corpses relate to an unsolved murder in Beijing. And when pathologist Margaret Campbell discovers that the victims were subjected to live autopsies, they find the most horrifying catalogue of killings ever uncovered.  Book 3 of series

A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his mistress. Both men's deaths are connected to a sinister series of killings and Beijing detective Li Yan finds himself in charge of what could be his last investigation.  Book 5 of series.

His victims are young and beautiful. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. When Li receives a letter from the killer, portraying his cruel intentions, there's no way he can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history...  Book 6 of series.