Fog Locks San Francisco: America

Name: Fog Locks San Francisco: America
Author: Sauce-flavored Bbq

by Sauce-flavored Bbq

ongoing Suspense Detective Mystery Male Lead

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105Kwords36chapters

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Ch. 36 — Author's Monologue

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About This Novel

The wet fog in San Francisco in 1997 hid a colder secret than the sea fog. Rosa Linde, a British female college student, went to the United States to complete a forensic practice report, but was accidentally involved in a series of murders. The three deceased bodies were abandoned next to city landmarks, with a rusty brass cross clutched at their fingertips. The circumstances of their deaths were exactly the same as the plot of the out-of-print detective novels she collected. The person in charge of "assisting" the investigation is Roland Peder, a well-known local gangster detective: an apartment with piles of cigarette butts, a coat pocket that always carries whiskey, and a living on the change earned from finding cats, but he has a pair of eyes that can pick out clues from the garbage. Rosa's mysophobia is incompatible with his sloppiness, and her obsessive-compulsive observation of details collides with his "superstitious" intuitive judgment, making her the most absurd temporary partner in the San Francisco Police Department. The murders escalate one after another. The strange symbols around the deceased and the subtle traces of disappearances at the scene all point to a lost and terrifying manuscript. Rosa relies on her photographic memory to dismantle clues, while Roland uses charlatanism to open up underground connections. The two approach the truth through mutual dislike and dependence - the murderer is not only reproducing the murders in the novel, but is also weaving a web of death against them. When the church bells collide with gunshots in the fog, the squeamish academic master and the bastard detective must break the barriers: hidden in the ignored dust are the last messages of the deceased; and the Taekwondo black belt around Roland's waist may be the only confidence to fight against the darkness. The wet mist has not yet dispersed, but the next sacrifice is already waiting in the shadows.