Ripples in the Lake

Authors: Dong Xi & James Trapp

China | c 2010 to c 2020 | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Crime & mystery | Thriller / suspense | Fiction in translation

Published on 31^st January 2026 by ACA Publishing Limited (Sinoist Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback |
216mm x 140mm | 427g

Detective Ran Dongdong has two problems. One is the dead young woman with a missing hand, and the other is her husband.

The first to be called to the scene when the body is found floating near a lakeside luxury hotel, she begins an investigation that soon leads her into a web centred on the scandalous affairs of a powerful businessman.

When she begins to see echoes of the case everywhere, including in her personal relations, she can’t resist interrogating her own marriage. But will the resonances set off a chain reaction in her life that she can’t control?