Detective Ye Ke's Casebook 1: The Black Swan Quartet

The social tragedy behind a series of murders, and a heartbreaking fate that moved millions of readers!

During graduation season, a string of serious crimes rocks a university in S City. Three female students display strange behavior before their deaths: Hong Wei falls from a building, leaving behind a death threat; Lan Xun repeatedly disfigures herself; Huang Lu undergoes a dramatic change in personality… All these strange incidents point to a certain documentary.

The police discover that every victim has ties of one kind or another to Li Ren, an intern at a television station, but they cannot prove that he is the killer. His methods of murder also baffle them…

What connections do the television station director, who will stop at nothing for a news story; Li Yue, a gynecologist with a psychological disorder; and Bai Ling, a student willing to sacrifice herself for a chance to study abroad, have to these cases?

Ye Ke, a cool-headed detective, joins forces with forensic examiner Sun Jiayu to investigate. They discover that every victim has a shocking past, and that the murder weapon has been hidden right beside them all along. But the real killer is far more complicated than they ever imagined!