Night Witch

It is not until the reader is some way on in the story that the idea of the Night Witch is introduced and even then, that person's identity remains a mystery until the very end. David Dale's cleverly drawn mystery Night Witch is full of suspense and intrigue, set against a backdrop of communist China and a corrupt police force. Night Witch revolves around two central characters, the western Jason Lamont who is in China teaching English and the Chinese Jin-Mei, and the drama begins around their romantic entanglement. However, it quickly moves on, drawing in other characters and become a backdrop for a compelling tale of murder mystery.
Night Witch is a commentary on the political and cultural situation in China that arose after the Tiananmen Square massacre but the author does not use the book as a platform to lecture or comment. Instead he weaves a clever tale of human weakness and tension with excellent characterisation, a gripping drama which will keep the reader turning the pages avidly until the very end.