**"See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society,
in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant
and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures."--San
Diego Union-Tribune
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While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover,
detective Liu Hulan, receives an urgent message from an old friend
imploring her to investigate the suspicious death of her daughter, who
worked for a toy company about to be sold to David's new client, Tartan
Enterprises.
Despite David's protests, Hulan goes undercover at the toy factory in
the rural village of Da Shui, deep in the heart of China. It is a place
that forces Hulan to face a past she has long been running from. Once
there, rather than finding answers to the girl's death, Hulan unearths
more questions, all of which point to possible crimes committed by
David's client. Suddenly Hulan and David find themselves on opposing
sides: One of them is trying to expose a company and unearth a killer,
while the other is ethically bound to protect his client. As pressures
mount and danger increases, Hulan and David uncover universal truths
about good and evil, right and wrong-and the sometimes subtle lines that
distinguish them.
Praise for The Interior
"[See] illuminates tradition and change, Western and Eastern cultural
differences. . . . All this in the middle of her thriller which is also
about greed, corruption, abuse of the disadvantaged, the desperation of
those on the bottom of the food chain, and love."***--The Tennessean
"Sophisticated . . . graceful . . . See's picture of contemporary
China's relationship with the United States is aptly played out through
her characters."--Los Angeles Times
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"Immediate, haunting and exquisitely rendered."--San Francisco
Chronicle
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