Broken Bones: A 30-Year-Old Cold Case

[A 30-year-old cold case + criminal analyst + crime scene reconstruction + professional behavior profiling] The cases in this story are adapted from real cases. The characters and details have been fictionalized. Thirty years ago, a dismemberment case involving thousands of neatly cut pieces of a body went unsolved. Thirty years later, criminal behavior analyst Gao Nianxi is drawn into the cold case by a nursery rhyme. Black plastic bags, travel bags, and an orderly sense of ritual: she deduces the killer’s profession, but the police question her conclusion. The killer may not be a psychopath, but someone in a particular line of work who reveres the dead. When professional habits become a template for murder, who can recognize those “ritualistic” hands thirty years later? After thirty years, the truth behind the cold case may finally be drawing near...