On the Ningzhou Criminal Investigation Team's board, clues from new and old cases are knotted together with red string: a red rose brooch, a missing left pinky, the forensic examiner who fell to her death in the “Rose Murder Case” fifteen years ago, and an unsolved child abduction from twenty years ago...
Su Jian stared at the note in her father's notebook: “The killer is on trial.” Suddenly, she smiled.
She had seen too many killers who fancied themselves righteous. But when she found a moss sample on the soles of the victim's shoes in a body-dumping case on campus, identical to the sample at her father's fall site, her smile froze.
What made her blood run cold was the scar on Cheng Yan's knuckle as he crushed a suspect's photo in the interrogation room. It was in precisely the same place as the “red mole on the killer's wrist” described by a witness to the abduction twenty years ago...
