Not sure this is really a 5 star book, but I have loved this quirky series and loved this one too, perhaps the best.

This is the 8th book in the Inspector Chen series, a police procedural set in recent/contemporary Shanghai. Inspector Chen is a poet, epicure and detective and the books paint a very rich portrait of life in contemporary Shanghai as a mid-level Cadre. Blending history, literature, food porn, and a clever mystery, they are good fun. Quirky, even nerdy, but would recommend to anyone who likes either the genre or is interested in modern Shanghai and life in China.