She uses bones as her brush and bloodshed as her ink, tearing open the darkest truths of the Ming court!
Su Xiaoxiao, a washerwoman from Jiangnan, is framed for murder overnight.
A corpse, a hairpin, and a plot to frame her leave her with nowhere to turn.
Clutching the Record of the Washing Away of Wrongs left by her late father, she examines bones, identifies traces of poison, and solves locked-room mysteries. She rises from a lowly washerwoman to become the emperor's own “Greatest Female Judge in the Land”!
She examines corpses, unravels schemes, and lays bare the human heart:
When a wealthy merchant is found dead in a locked room, she exposes an exotic Western Region technique for killing with a delayed effect;
When the Blood Moon cult slaughters a city, she alone confronts the deranged high officials of the court;
When a prince dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the palace by secret decree... to find out who cut off the emperor's own son's head!
A cold-faced Brocade Guard officer presses her at every turn, his sword glinting in the shadows between case files. “Su Xiaoxiao, take one more step, and my Embroidered Spring Saber won't know you from anyone else.”
She only smiles. “Commander, when your blade is at my throat, your heartbeat sounds far more urgent than the case.”
She claws her way out of the mire and uses hard-hitting forensic skills to face-slap the powerful!
With a fragmentary manuscript, she will seek justice for the dead and a chance of survival for the living, carving a path to greatness through the bloody storms of the Ming Empire!
Very nice, recommended