Special District: Harbin: Drawing the Tiger’s Bones by Tim Stickel
First place winner of 2021 North Street Book Award for Genre Fiction
Top 25 Indie Books of 2022
A mixed-race patrolman of Harbin’s Special District Police. A dismembered body. A raging Red Terror campaign. A brewing war with the Soviet Union.
1929: Borya is paired up with a senior detective to investigate the death of one of the city’s foreign businessmen found in the Japanese zone. The trail leads from the Harbin’s upscale neighborhoods to its grittiest and beyond to the frontiers of Manchuria. They are drawn into the chaos of a potential war with the Soviet Union. Can they survive long enough to solve the case?
This is Book 1 of the award-winning Harbin Mysteries series.