Other detectives look for physical traces and evidence. When Lu Shen solves a case, he first becomes the killer.
In the final years of the Wanli reign, Lu Shen, a constable in Jiangjin County, has a natural gift for entering a criminal’s mind, retracing the crime, and seeing through layer upon layer of deception.
No System, no mysticism. Deduction can point the way, but only evidence can make a case airtight.
From rural murders to mysteries in the prefectural city, from local tyrants to a web of corruption at court, he rises step by step on the strength of his achievements, climbing from a lowly clerk to the Great Court of Justice.
As he clears one wrongful conviction after another, he must eventually uncover the long-buried truth behind his father’s death.
I probe a thousand cases with a criminal’s heart, and wield the law to crush the wicked.
