A Banker's Casebook of Deduction

In Republican-era Shanghai, a string of bizarre cases has emerged in the French Concession.

Bodies vanish from the morgue, nursery rhymes in the alleyways foretell death, and old grudges in an opera troupe conceal murderous intent.

A fastidious detective, a cold-faced forensic doctor, and a hot-blooded police inspector join forces to expose the “ghost stories” and uncover a shocking conspiracy that treats human lives as bargaining chips.

You see ghosts. I see what lies behind them: the human heart.