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Five books a Hong Kong crime writer couldn’t live without: Chan Ho-kei’s must-reads for a desert island

Among Chan Ho-kei’s favourite books are the detective series that encouraged him to start writing and the Japanese mystery novel that influenced how he uses red herrings in his own stories

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Of the five books that crime-fiction writer Chan Ho-kei would take to a desert island, two are crime novels. Photo: Shutterstock

Crime author Chan Ho-kei was born and raised in Hong Kong and has written more than 10 novels. The best known are The Man Who Sold The World (2011), which won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, and The Borrowed (2015), which has been translated into English to give non-Chinese readers a chance to see Hong Kong from a very local perspective.

Hong Kong crime writer Chan Ho-kei.
Hong Kong crime writer Chan Ho-kei.

Here are the five books he would take to a desert island, in his own words.

Ender’s Game

by Orson Scott Card, 1985

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