Nighttime Mysteries of the Divine Capital

In the late Tang, strange cases erupt one after another. Lu Mingyuan, head of the Unusual Affairs Bureau and a former judicial investigator at the Dali Temple, teams up with Lin Suwen, a gifted female coroner, to handle bizarre unsolved cases such as “the ghost ship that claims lives” and “the fox spirit that steals souls.” Together, they follow every clue to unravel mysteries of the human heart beneath a veil of spirits and monsters, and expose the power struggles behind the scenes. Keywords: historical detective fiction, classic whodunits, strange tales and secrets, two strong partners, episodic cases, dynastic conspiracies, solving the supernatural through science, monsters and the human heart.