The Seven-Day Murder Casebook

The Seven-Day Register of Crimes Urban Fantasy × Mystery and Crime-Solving × Supernatural Awakening Synopsis Lu Chen, a police captain, is shot and left on the brink of death while pursuing a serial killer. In his final moments, he sees an ancient bronze book floating in midair. When he wakes up in the ICU, the book has become a tattoo branded onto his palm, accompanied by a cold notification: [A fragment of the Book of Life and Death has been bound to you. Remaining lifespan: 7 days.] He discovers that this modern-day version of the Book of Life and Death can display the remaining lifespans of everyone within a hundred miles. More terrifying still, the “lifespan balances” of the victims in the last three unsolved cases had all been deliberately altered before they died. To stay alive and uncover the truth, Lu Chen is forced onto a path of hunting criminals along the boundary between life and death. “Those victims didn’t die by accident or murder. Someone crossed out their ‘appointed time of death’ in the Book of Life and Death ahead of schedule.” “And my name is in that book, too.”