On the day I retired, I sat alone by the river, squatting as I chewed on a sesame flatbread.
Thirty-two years as a criminal investigator, 231 cases, including 89 major and particularly serious criminal cases.
Some cases are harder to bear after they’re solved than before.
Some truths, once uncovered, can never be spoken aloud.
My apprentice asked me, “Captain Lin, which case do you remember most?”
I didn’t answer.
Because the people in those cases are still alive and well in my mind, even today.
These are the case notes of a retired veteran detective.
No boasting about miraculous detective skills, just stories of cases that were solved, but the mysteries of the human heart remained.
Case files can be archived, but what happened in those cases can never be put away.
