Major Cases: Strange Encounters

【Realistic, hard-hitting suspense and an exploration of human nature, with the dry humor of detectives’ everyday lives and the dark absurdity of the cases themselves.】 An ambulance raced into a rundown apartment complex. The doctor declared that the deceased was covered in injuries. The family wailed in grief, yet within an hour they had dressed the deceased in a full burial outfit and demanded cremation. Detective Captain Lin Weichi studied the suspicious bruises concealed beneath the burial clothes. “Fell down the stairs? Not even a ghost would believe that.” When the investigation pointed to the deceased’s young wife and two so-called “friends,” all three gave identical statements, as if they had rehearsed them: “We’re just ordinary friends.” Lin Weichi gripped his cigarette pack and sneered. “Ordinary friends? The kind who rush to dress a dead person in burial clothes?”