A Republic-Era Guide to Examining Bones

The waters of the Huangpu River carry secrets, while the winds of Shanghai's bustling foreign concessions conceal murderous intent. Jiang Yan, a forensic pathologist returning from abroad, steps into Shanghai in 1926 with his dissection case in hand. As cold bones meet warm-blooded crimes and Western science encounters Eastern customs, he joins forces with Chinese police inspector Bai Muyao to hunt down criminals through the thickening mists, writing a legendary chapter in the history of Shanghai's forensic medicine.