The Great Song Coroner's Casebook: No Escape from Bianjing

At the third watch, he examines the dead. At the fourth, he hunts the killer. In Bianjing, the night begins to turn cold in the corpse cabinets of the Court of Judicial Review.

Su Cheng, the most uncompromising investigator in the Court of Judicial Review, never makes a mistake when examining a body or reading the marks it bears.

A murder involving stolen medicine from the imperial storehouse pulls him into the entire web of the black market.

He enlists Gu Xiao, a street hooligan who has done time in prison. One official and one rogue, they storm pleasure quarters, search coffins, explore underground waterways, and break into the palace grounds.

Counterfeit medicine trafficking, people smuggled in alive, a three-year-old cold case, black accounts within the imperial court...

One murder case after another twists into an impossible knot. Someone wants to silence him, sever his leads, and put him in a corpse cabinet.

Su Cheng believes in only one thing:

The dead do not lie, and physical evidence cannot be faked.

He is determined to tear the dark veil from Bianjing.

No rebirth, no System, pure hard-boiled investigation. Historical figures take the stage themselves, not as mere background characters.

Open Chapter One and step into the case.