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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2006
  • Latest Book:
    December 2016
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Full Series List in Order

An Inspector O Novel

1 - A Corpse in the Koryo (Oct-2006)
2 - Hidden Moon (Nov-2007)
3 - Bamboo and Blood (Dec-2008)
4 - The Man With the Baltic Stare (Aug-2010)
5 - The Gentleman from Japan (Dec-2016)

Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. SIMPLE ORDERS FOR INSPECTOR O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of...



  • A Corpse in the Koryo -- named one of the Best Mystery/Thrillers by the Chicago Tribune -- introduced readers to one of the most unique detectives to appear on the page in years -- the elusive Inspector O. In Hidden Moon, the Inspector is ordered t...



  • Now the inspector returns . . . In the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang. When the wife of a North Korean ...



  • From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for...



  • James Church’s Inspector O novels have been hailed as “crackling good" (The Washington Post) and “tremendously clever” (Tampa Tribune), while Church himself has been embraced by critics as “the equal of le Carré” (Publishers Weekly, star...



  • James Church, a former Western intelligence officer, returns to the secret world of North Korean intelligence with another story in his critically acclaimed Inspector O series. Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory n...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Church has published 6 books.

James Church does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Gentleman from Japan, was published in December 2016.

The first book by James Church, A Corpse in the Koryo, was published in October 2006.

Yes. James Church has 1 series.