Hunting Killers in the Dark

Haisheng City, July 2015.

A mysterious person calls the police, claiming to have found the brutally mutilated body of a woman in a residential complex.

In just over two months, four cases of women being tortured and murdered in the exact same way have now come to light.

What’s baffling is that the killer, usually meticulous and careful to leave no trace, has this time left a fingerprint on the victim.

Was it a careless mistake, or is there more to it?

Led by newly appointed Criminal Investigation Detachment Captain Wang Yan, the police painstakingly follow the clues and gradually discover that the truth is far more complicated than it appears.

Hidden masterminds, black-clad figures who come and go without a trace, and the tangled complexities of human nature…

As those connected to the case emerge one by one, Wang Yan is shocked to discover that they seem to have countless ties to the kidnapping he experienced fifteen years ago and his father’s suicide…