Shen Mengying, a young bank employee, told her parents to go to the workplace to work overtime, and then disappeared mysteriously. The skeleton of a young woman was unearthed at a construction site in Changshu, and DNA comparison confirmed that the deceased was Shen Mengying, who had been missing for 20 years. The police reorganized clues based on records from that year and finally found the murderer before the statute of limitations, and the criminal confessed to the crime. Just when everyone thought they could finally comfort the deceased, a letter of confession from the other side of the ocean pointed out that the murderer was someone else. What is the relationship between the murderer and the deceased? What happened between them and why did they plead guilty for others? Who is the real murderer?
Reader comments
"The Secret at the Bottom of the River" cuts through the abyss of human nature with cold writing, and reading it feels like facing a cold abyss. The author takes the case of corpses buried at the bottom of the river as a reference, and weaves a sophisticated web of logic in the confrontation between the criminal investigation team leader and the psychological profiler. The case progresses like dominoes, with every detail from the crescent-shaped scar on the deceased's wrist to the chlorine gas residue in the abandoned chemical plant becoming a key piece of puzzle to solve the mystery.
The novel breaks through the traditional reasoning framework and integrates socialist concerns into hard-core reasoning - when the murderer takes off the silicone mask, what is exposed is not only his identity disguise, but also an indictment of the original sin of primitive accumulation of capital. Silent at the bottom of the river are not only corpses, but also souls alienated by money. The author uses restrained narrative techniques to hide social issues such as class contradictions and environmental costs in the details of criminal investigation, making the case a prism that illuminates the ills of the times.
The reversal in the ending is not a simple narrative technique, but a question of "justice" - when legal procedures become a fig leaf, does the truth have to be revealed by extraordinary means? The presentation of this moral dilemma makes the novel transcend the category of genre literature and become a mirror that reflects modern civilization.
It's quite nice. I haven't heard such a nice story for a long time.
Not bad, very good, thought-provoking
Rigorous logic and fascinating
Compelling story, good narration and foreshadowing
It's full of details, and the inner description is delicate, and I don't know how to do it. It feels very real, like something that might happen around me.
The writing is very good and the story is fascinating
Why don't you wait until I finish reading?
This is one of the few novels that doesn't contain a single line of nonsense.
"The Secret at the Bottom of the River" cuts through the abyss of human nature with cold writing, and reading it feels like facing a cold abyss. The author takes the case of corpses buried at the bottom of the river as a reference, and weaves a sophisticated web of logic in the confrontation between the criminal investigation team leader and the psychological profiler. The case progresses like dominoes, with every detail from the crescent-shaped scar on the deceased's wrist to the chlorine gas residue in the abandoned chemical plant becoming a key piece of puzzle to solve the mystery. The novel breaks through the traditional reasoning framework and integrates socialist concerns into hard-core reasoning - when the murderer takes off the silicone mask, what is exposed is not only his identity disguise, but also an indictment of the original sin of primitive accumulation of capital. Silent at the bottom of the river are not only corpses, but also souls alienated by money. The author uses restrained narrative techniques to hide social issues such as class contradictions and environmental costs in the details of criminal investigation, making the case a prism that illuminates the ills of the times. The reversal in the ending is not a simple narrative technique, but a question of "justice" - when legal procedures become a fig leaf, does the truth have to be revealed by extraordinary means? The presentation of this moral dilemma makes the novel transcend the category of genre literature and become a mirror that reflects modern civilization.
It's quite nice. I haven't heard such a nice story for a long time.
Not bad, very good, thought-provoking
Rigorous logic and fascinating
Compelling story, good narration and foreshadowing
It's full of details, and the inner description is delicate, and I don't know how to do it. It feels very real, like something that might happen around me.
The writing is very good and the story is fascinating
Why don't you wait until I finish reading? This is one of the few novels that doesn't contain a single line of nonsense.