Series
Detective Inspector Chen
Liz Williams · 6 novels · 9 short stories · 1999–2024
Liz Williams' Detective Inspector Chen novels follow a Singapore Three policeman licensed to investigate crimes that cross into the supernatural, working alongside Zhu Irzh, an exiled demon from Hell's bureaucracy, on cases tangled up with Chinese mythology, Heaven, and Hell. The six-book series blends noir police procedural with fantasy as Chen and Irzh navigate conflicts between the mortal world and the celestial and infernal governments above and below it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s11
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
6 novels · 9 short stories
1 author
reads like:mystery & detectivedemonsbig citycontemporarymysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 15 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Morningstardarkest
- The Shadow Pavilionbrightest · most intense
- Adventures in the Ghost Tradecalmest