Criminal Investigation: Starting with a Woman's Corpse on the Riverbank

At thirty, Ye Lan is the youngest head of the criminal investigation squad at Pushi Public Security Bureau. Cases that look hopeless to everyone else, he can crack by spotting a single tire mark, a small laminated card, or half a sentence someone lets slip without thinking. A woman's body beneath the dry riverbank of the Majia River, a bizarre death in a hospital room in the middle of the night: behind every case stands someone who refuses to speak. The dead can't talk, so he speaks for them.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.