by James Church · St Martin's Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312352080
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«A Corpse in the Koryo» is the mystery novel by James Church, published by St Martin's Press in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
In totalitarian North Korea, Inspector O, a state security officer, receives a seemingly simple order: photograph a car on a deserted road. The assignment drags him into an investigation of murders and kidnappings from decades past, with a corpse at the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, and puts his life and career at stake.
First installment of the Inspector O series, published in 2006.
For readers of crime fiction and political thrillers interested in approaching North Korea through fiction.
James Frederick Church Wright (1904–1970) was a Canadian journalist and historian, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1940 Governor General's Awards for Slava Bohua, a historical account of Canada's Doukhobor community.
