The Shadow Pavilion

A Detective Inspector Chen Novel

Detective Inspector Chen is back!

The Snake Agent returns in The Shadow Pavilion, the fourth Detective Inspector Chen novel from Liz Williams. When Chen's partner, the demon Seneschal Zhu Irzh, disappears, along with Chen's wife Inari's guardian badger, Chen must enlist all of his allies and assets in order to locate them.

Meanwhile, Zhu Irzh and the badger find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar jungle hell, stalked by a rogue demon lord and his harem of tigress demons, an assassin from between worlds targets Mhara, the new Lord of Heaven, and a beautiful Bollywood starlet holds a deadly secret . . .

From the strange streets of Singapore Three to the rough and tumble world of Bollywood, where money flows fast and emotions flare even faster; from the realms of the Celestial to the haunts of the Infernal and all the spaces in between, The Shadow Pavilion delivers the thrills, excitement, and near-future occult action fans have come to expect.

Cover Art by Jon Foster

Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, January 2009

Distributed by Night Shade Books
1423 33rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122

ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-121-8
ISBN-10: 1-59780-121-6

The Shadow Pavilion © 2008 by Liz Williams
This edition of The Shadow Pavilion © 2008 by Night Shade Books

Jacket art © 2008 by Jon Foster
Jacket design by Claudia Noble
Interior layout and design by Jeremy Lassen

Edited by Marty Halpern

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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To Trevor

With thanks to everyone at Night Shade Books,
and to my agent Shawna McCarthy.
 
 

Other books by Liz Williams include:
 

Detective Inspector Chen:

Snake Agent
The Demon and the City
Precious Dragon
The Shadow Pavilion
The Iron Khan (forthcoming)

Banner of Souls
Bloodmind
Darkland
Empire of Bones
The Ghost Sister
Nine Layers of Sky
The Poison Master

The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories