Zhou Haohui’s crime series “Death Notice” has sold over 1 million printed copies in the writer’s native China. Now an American publisher is preparing to introduce it to English-language readers, with the first book in the trilogy slated for U.S. release on Tuesday.

Set in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu, “Death Notice” follows Capt. Pei Tao as he and other detectives attempt to track down Eumenides, a shadowy vigilante who sends letters, or death notices, to people he believes have gotten away with crimes.