The Corpse Whisperer: A Citywide Manhunt

Beneath the neon lights of the bustling city lurk dark crimes hidden from view. Forensic pathologist Gu Yanbai, a genius his colleagues call the “Whisperer of the Dead,” uses his scalpel as a pen and corpses as his pages, decoding the dead’s final “words” on the cold autopsy table. Whenever an apparently unsolvable body is brought in, he can always uncover clues left by the killer in the angle of a wound, a fracture in the bones, or the slightest change in an organ. Ice crystals in a victim’s bladder expose a trick used to disguise the time of a highway dump-site murder; fluorescent residue under a victim’s fingernails in a locked-room school case points to a hidden witness; unusual contents in a victim’s stomach in a family massacre lead to a decade-old cold case...

Across 20 crime scenes that push the limits of the mind and 20 forensic files classified as “taboo,” Lu Chen must outwit cunning killers while facing pressure from the system, public scrutiny, and even his own psychological scars. From mutilated remains in remote hills to bodies floating on the water, from family massacres to hauntings on campus, he holds fast to his belief in “fighting for the living and speaking for the dead.” As science clashes with superstition, he tears away layer upon layer of deception and lets the silent dead tell the truth...