Looking for Suspenseful, Brain-Bending Mysteries with Wild Premises and a Realistic Feel 想收集悬疑推理非常紧张烧脑脑洞且偏纪实
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Evil Bones 2: The Ashen Mystery 恶骨2：灰烬谜踪
[Criminal Investigation + Criminal Psychology + Hard-Core Deduction + Genius Detective + Serial Murders + Fighting Side by Side + Ensemble Cast] The dead can speak, and clues never lie! Thirty years ago, a shooting sent shockwaves through the entire town. A man and a woman died on the spot, while the killer remained at large. Years later, another case brought the true culprit behind the cold case to light! At the same time, a young girl vanished under mysterious circumstances, and every suspect
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Dawn of Murder 1: Undercurrent 破晓杀机1：暗潮
[Criminal Investigation and Deduction + Criminal Psychology + Stunning Twists + Horror + Wild Imagination] On the square of the Police University, a horrifying corpse lies curled inside a shattered sculpture, its face contorted as if frozen in a silent scream. Even more unsettling, a note found in the victim's stomach eerily foretells the crime scene. Chen Ye has only just become a police officer when he is handed such a difficult case, and this is only the beginning. A string of deaths shatters
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The Horsehead Incident 特马头事件
(This book was written in 2022. It’s a completed work of pure fiction, so please don’t take it seriously. Back then, there weren’t any rumors about Epstein or anyone else.) Urban suspense, no romance. A woman’s body is found in a roadside culvert, and the evidence points straight to her neighbor. Was it revenge, or is something else going on? As the investigation deepens, it uncovers a truth so shocking it leaves everyone stunned…
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A Mystery-Loving Reader's New Book 爱看悬疑新书
My new work is here! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Monstrous National Fate: I Shock the World with Daoist Arts 诡异国运：我以道法震慑全球
New book! The rating just came in, and it'll slowly climb from here. [National Destiny Game] [Global Livestream] [Eastern Mysticism] [No Romance] A bizarre national-destiny game has descended upon Blue Star, throwing contestants from every country into terrifying dungeons. She wields orthodox Taoist magic. When other people enter a supernatural dungeon, they hide from ghosts, run for their lives, and sob as they search for a way out. When Shen Qinghe enters one, she brings talismans and Taoist a
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Redemption of the Utterly Wicked 极恶救赎
[No brainless plot] + [No protagonist plot armor] + [No ghosts] + [Three male leads] A tightly paced, plot-driven crime-solving story. It all begins with a bizarre murder in the small town of Menghai... A dead man checking into a hotel, an unknown toxin, a mole in the police force, execution-style killings, a secret buried for years... In this case, criminal investigation captain Si Jiannan, case consultant Cheng Tian, and rookie officer Duan Luo untangle the clues and find redemption... Love ha
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Reborn: The Years I Raised a Ghost Girl 重生之我养女鬼那些年
[Ghosts in the Book]! [Humorous Style]! [Powerful Characters]! [Supernatural Urban Fantasy]! [Evil Aesthetics]! [Loaded from the Start]! This is the story of Wang Xianhe, who is reborn in a supernatural city and cleverly uses his pure yang constitution and money to acquire ghostly artifacts and control all kinds of evil spirits.
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The Human Realm Soul-Ferrying Office 人间渡魂事务所
[A Soul-Crossing Sword that levels up and transforms] [Urban supernatural tales + detective investigations] [Cool, aloof senior boss and her younger puppy-like partner] [Uncovering the truth behind his mother's disappearance and the Soul-Crosser organization's dark secrets] The Soul-Crossing Sword levels up, with no mindless power fantasy. In a city teeming with vengeful spirits, ghost stories have become reality, and ordinary people can meet bizarre deaths at any moment. Everyone thinks they'r
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Floating Balance 浮衡
[Rules-Based Horror + Thrills + Supernatural Mystery] When black fog pours from cracks in the city and devours people, and every rule corresponds to a human life, no one knows that the source of the Cataclysm of the Ruins engulfing the world is nothing more than a father's obsession with bringing back his son, who died young. Sun Tianyi, designation Y-001, is the world's only stable S-rank original anchor. A ship's-anchor mark on his palm can dispel contamination, rewrite rules, and raise a defe
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X Expedition Records X探险实录
Whatever~ I'm giving up~ The writing is bad~ I can't keep making this up. Respect to everyone who can finish reading it! I can't stomach this story anymore, so read it yourselves. [Not a power fantasy + eerie exploration + no female lead]
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The Kyoto Mystery Files 京都悬实录
The Shen family's fortunes rise and fall among the Celestial Dragons. Shen Fu defies fate and rises to the makings of a Great Emperor. The Immortal Realm battles the Demon Realm, and since ancient times, gods and demons have clashed, with good and evil forever at odds. More great battles are unfolding in the ongoing story.
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Tracking the Black Zone 黑域追踪
A cold case pursued for ten years finally tore open Linjiang's gray sky screen. The black-gold empire crumbled, the protectors fell from power, and police detective Zheng Xiaotian won the battle, yet chose to leave the front line. His departure told everyone: you only win when you hold fast to the bottom line of justice. The dawn in Linjiang has never meant that the sky has grown bright, but that people's hearts have. All the stories in this book are artistic adaptations of real cases and events
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The System Rescued the Wrong Person, So Let Me Take Their Place First 系统捞错人之让我先冒名顶替
[System]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Getting Blamed Every Day]+ [Traveling Between Different Worlds]+ [No Heroine]+ [No Romance] The old plant trees, and those who come after enjoy the shade. Now, the old dig holes, and those who come after fill them in. The System told him that if he completed the assigned missions, he could return to his original world. To make it up to him, the System cobbled together a little system to accompany him. What will the ending be? Will he be able to return to his original
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My Left Eye Rewinds Time, My Right Eye Judges: From the Start, White Hair Rules Forensics 左眼回溯右眼审：开局白发镇刑侦
[Criminal Investigation] [Face-Slapping] [Revenge] [Urban Fantasy] [Episodic Cases + Main Story] I awakened an eye that burns through my lifespan. My hair turned white overnight, but I could see the past and judge the guilty. With my left hand, I turn back time. With my right, I command hell. When I used the little life I had left to gaze at the mastermind smiling at a charity gala, the entire Yunding Group began to tremble.
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The Little Cop Who Makes a Big Difference 小警大用
Du Dayong once hoped to grow up to be a great chef. He never expected to become a low-ranking criminal investigator. This is the story of a young police officer growing up. There is no reborn protagonist showing off and face-slapping people, no System or golden finger making him invincible, and no ridiculous transmigration to another world. Here, you'll find the humor and warmth between comrades, a touch of youthful romance, loving family bonds, mischievous leaders, and absurd coworkers. Young o
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On My First Day at Work, I Tore Up the Wanted List 上班第一天，手撕通缉榜
He transmigrated to a parallel world and became a graduate of the police academy. When Xu Lin received his job assignment, he was completely bewildered. He had graduated top of his class with perfect marks in criminal investigation, and was about to become a criminal investigator. So why had they assigned him to the traffic police? What was that supposed to mean? They wouldn’t let him work criminal investigations? Fine. A traffic cop could take on criminal investigations, too. On his first day a
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The Feathered Deep 羽化深渊
The story takes place in the modern East Asian coastal city of Linyuan. Linyuan is a port city plagued by year-round rain, industrial decline, and a mix of religions. It is home to: * Abandoned Taoist temples * An underground black market * A seaside altar * A sealed-off mountainous region * Folk villages * An old, quarantined psychiatric hospital * A secret religious sect left over from the Republican era Ordinary people believe the world is normal. But in truth, the world has been infiltrated
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The Transmigrators' Alliance: Dedicated to Tearing Apart Twisted Plots 穿越者联盟，专拆变态剧本
After waking from a deep sleep, Qin Weiwei, an information architect at the Ministry of State Security, finds herself the frail, dying legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel. But she is horrified to discover this is no transmigration. It is a cage. After entering the palace, she discovers she is not alone. Chu Huaiyu, a widow who carves silverware with shards of broken porcelain; Su Jingyao, an orphan who arranges flowers with the precision of a chemistry experiment; and Lu Zhaoyue, a
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Night Train Trap 夜车陷阱
A fox spirit with a blood-soaked face in the back seat, a white dress floating at the medical university, a corpse that won’t burn, a dead person who comes back to life! My eyes suddenly opened to the world of ghosts. How different will the world look now?…
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The Man Who Shares My Heart 那个和我共用心脏的男人
[Childhood Sweethearts + Mystery and Crime Solving] In her dreams, Song Yun becomes a man and calls out to a woman who looks exactly like her: Yaoyao. When she wakes, she is about to marry a fiancé she barely knows. Three years ago, Song Yun met with an accident and was at death’s door. When someone dies, someone else gets to live. The heart that saved her arrived just in time. Three years later, she still can’t remember a thing about her past. On the day her fiancé returns to the country, sh
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The Great Psychologist 大心理学家
When emotions stop being mere emotions and become “entities” that can eat away at reality, the world's boundaries of safety quietly collapse. Anxiety spreads, fear takes shape, and depression devours the will. Nine psychological disorders, nine corrosive entities, lie dormant in the deepest recesses of the modern urban mind. Li Xin unexpectedly inherits a legacy from a “snake” and begins to see these invisible structures, attempting to interfere with how they operate. One small intervention thro
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The Police Officer Says, Stay Safe 警察叔叔说，要注意安全
(A suspense novel with no System, no mindless power fantasy, and no overpowered hero. Everything follows logic.) Aside from having an uncle who is an elite soldier, a mentor who is the God of Gambling, and a partner who is a miracle doctor, he has no particular talents. He wants to get a job, but employers say he doesn’t have enough education. Trying hard to fit into an ordinary life, he buys sales figures to get a foothold, but nearly gets a friend into trouble. Since trouble keeps finding him,
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Playing the Horror Lady in the Dungeon 在副本里当恐怖小姐
[Mutual Salvation] [1v1] [Both Pure] [Asexual Egg-Bearing] [Daddy-Type Crybaby] [Infinite Flow] [Adventure] [Daddy Rivalry] [Ensemble Cast] [Dark Humor] The young Ye Jiu enters an “escape instance” but doesn't run. Instead, she goes straight after Si Ye, the top-ranked terrifying boss… and dates him, marries him, and has a child with him. Two worlds, the System ascends to godhood, and the instances merge with reality. The macro world is the real world, while the micro worlds are the instance wor
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Murdering the Years Like Water 谋杀似水年华
On a stormy summer night, a bizarre murder takes place in a grocery store opposite Nanming High School. The only witness is the victim's thirteen-year-old son. Fifteen years later, the case remains unsolved, and the detective in charge dies in the line of duty. While making funeral arrangements, Tian Xiaomai, the officer's daughter, discovers her father's old case notebook. It mentions the murder weapon from fifteen years ago: an unusual purple silk scarf. To fulfill her father's last wish, play
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Aigo Aozaki Mystery Collection: Tenma Satozome Series 青崎有吾推理作品集：里染天马系列
Stadium Mystery On a day of heavy rain, a murder occurred in the old gymnasium of Fengzhiqiu High School. The scene was in a secret room, and the captain of the table tennis team who was present at the time was regarded as a suspect—— In order to save the team leader, Yuno, a member of the table tennis team, asks for help from the talented boy Tenma Satome. However, Riran, who is hailed as a genius, is actually a useless otaku living in the school? ! In what direction will the campus case and th
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A Collection of Foreign Bestselling Mystery and Detective Novels (25 Volumes) 外国畅销悬疑推理小说荟萃（全25册）
A collection of 25 bestselling suspense and mystery novels. Every one is a mind-bending read. They'll keep you hooked and leave you wanting more! "Fatal Verdict": What would you do if your child was brutally murdered and the justice system could do nothing about it? "The Evidence Game": An ambitious lawyer, a determined mother, a serial murder case, and a fatal trial involving her son... "Identity": On social media, nothing is as it seems. Be careful what you post. Someone is watching... "Sugar
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No Escape from the End of Sin 2 罪终难逃2
Cheng Yi, the male lead of this novel, is twenty-six years old and heads Criminal Investigation Team A in the Major Crimes Unit of the U City Police Department. Most of the time, he looks half-asleep and utterly listless. You’d never take him for a police officer just by looking at him. But whenever a case comes up, he becomes a completely different person. He investigates with utmost care and rigor, his mind racing even faster than a computer’s CPU fan. He’s handsome and charming, too, but what
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The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏
Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up...
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Fuze Clinic: The Secret Arts of Yin and Yang 福泽医馆：阴阳秘术
The Fuze Medical Hall: Secrets of Yin and Yang tells the story of Ning Yu, the youngest Chinese medicine practitioner at Danyang People's Hospital. Adopted by He Beifeng, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, she is known as A Fu and bears the responsibility of carrying on the medical legacy of Fuzetang, which dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. But she unexpectedly becomes entangled in a series of bizarre events. A giant python in her dreams, her past-life connection with Liu Xinien,
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Embroidered Spring Blade and the Courtroom Gavel 绣春刀与惊堂木
[Ming Dynasty under the Jiajing Emperor + Embroidered Uniform Guard + Dali Temple investigations + a cast of spoiled young nobles + political intrigue and mystery + lighthearted crime-solving] During the Jiajing era, an ironclad case was closed in the capital. On the first day of his new post at Dali Temple, newly appointed top scholar Shen Ji spotted a flaw in the testimony. But the case was connected to the Five City Military Command, and no one in the court dared touch it. He was low-rankin
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Black Doves, Them 黑鸽，他们
Shh, keep your voice down. Don't let them find us! Humans fear us, just as we fear humans. The wildfire that burns us alive will set the whole world ablaze. Please join us in protecting everything from humanity. We, the Black Doves, long for bright skies after the war. What? You're human? How surprising. You actually found us. You did it. Allow me to applaud you. Congratulations. You've finally opened your eyes to a sky full of Black Doves. Now you have two choices. (Die peacefully and without a
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The Gates of Death 死亡之扉
An original light novel, dedicated to everyone who felt lost during their teenage years. Every city has its own legends. And in Chenghua City, there is a legend about the Door of Death. They say anyone who opens this door will disappear, not simply die. Every trace of their existence will vanish, and everyone who knew them will lose all their memories of them... But this door only opens for those who want to end their lives. Once it opens... that person will truly disappear. Our protagonist, Lan
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