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Writers Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung are co-authoring a new thriller

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of The Last Mandarin, set to arrive in spring 2026 from Minotaur Books

"We wanted to hand you a book that is not just propulsive but also about profound relationships, both political and personal," Penny says of the novel

Author Louise Penny and journalist Mellissa Fung are joining forces.

In the co-authors’ forthcoming novel The Last Mandarin , Alice Li, a first generation Chinese-American, is intent on paving her own path. A food blogger, Alice has always trailed behind her mother Vivien, who escaped China following the Tiananmen Square massacre and found a new calling as a global human rights activist.

But when fire and security alarms start to go off

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