Embers of the Floating World: ???? (Shanghai Lantern Mysteries)

By HH X

Shanghai, 1945. The war is over, but the city hasn't stopped keeping secrets.

When a dance-hall headliner is found dead in her own apartment, Inspector Ming Ling reads the room the way he reads everyone - patiently, and without believing what he's told. The obvious answer is a jealous lover. The real answer is buried twenty years deep in a Kunqu opera teacher's devotion, a young heiress's engagement to one of the city's oldest families, and a name someone faked a death to escape.

As Ming Ling pulls the thread, it drags in a fianc who can't decide whether to trust the woman he loves, a father who has spent two decades watching his daughter from the shadows, and a debt that was never going to stay buried once the wrong person started asking questions.

Embers of the Floating World is the first novel in the Shanghai Lantern Mysteries - a series about the cases that outlast their solving, and the people who carry them home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGRW1Z1G
• ISBN13: 9798170180592
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"