A financial executive had his throat cut in a locked high-end apartment.
Surveillance clearly captured the suspect walking into the scene - but he had died twelve hours earlier.
How to kill a dead person?
Lu Chenzhou, a criminal investigation expert from the provincial department, took over the case and found that there was unknown powder remaining in the mouth of the "dead man" and the wound on the deceased's neck was as clean as a surgical operation.
This is not the first "impossible crime".
An arson case in a wealthy businessman's villa twenty years ago, a pyramid scheme involving NT$9.4 Billion, a serial murder case spanning 28 years... Thirty crimes adapted from real cases unfolded in front of Lu Chenzhou like a puzzle. Every piece of the puzzle points to the same answer: the murderer is not one person, but a "network of silence" covering the entire city.
When AI forges evidence, when power tamperes with time, when the dead become suspects——
What else can you believe?
Open this book and enter a suspenseful maze woven with real cases. There are no superpowers here, only human hearts that are more terrifying than superpowers.
"The dead don't lie, but the living do."
