Looking for Mystery Novels. I Love Crime Solving and Deduction, Especially Brain Teasers 求悬疑类小说，喜欢破案推理文，烧脑什么的最有爱
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The Nightmare Returns 梦靥如故
[Love and hate intertwined + strong female lead + trapped in danger + hunting a killer on a stormy night] A beautiful woman dies on the operating table during childbirth, leaving Shangguan Yu an orphan overnight. Was it murder or a medical accident? Are the countless midnight visions nightmares, or glimpses of a truth left just barely concealed? Nineteen years ago, on a night of thunder and lightning, a butcher appeared in the rain. Was someone spreading rumors, or trying to cover something up?
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Judge Dee: Cracking the Case 大唐狄公案·破局
What makes this book a great read: the victims’ bizarre deaths, painstaking deduction, and a style that shifts from witty and humorous to serious and meticulous. It’s a boy’s version of The Cases of Judge Dee and a Tang Dynasty version of The Washing Away of Wrongs! Rather than sketching out the plot in broad strokes, the story offers detailed, vivid depictions of the crime scenes. This makes the cases feel authentic while keeping the focus on the investigations! The Golden Mystery, The Secret T
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Judge Dee Case Files: The Red Pavilion 狄公案：红阁子
Three curses in a secret chamber, a beauty’s debt from hell On Paradise Island, the nights are a whirl of luxury and revelry. Di Renjie, magistrate of Puyang County, is just passing through when he is forced to stop and take on what seems like an open-and-shut suicide case: Li Hanlin, a newly appointed top scholar, is heartbroken and has slit his throat in the Red Pavilion at the Yongle Inn. Thirty years earlier, the wealthy merchant Tao Kuang also cut his own throat in this room. Three days lat
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Judge Dee Case Files: The Bronze Bell Case 狄公案：铜钟案
[Historical mystery + locked-room murders + Detective Di Renjie + interwoven serial cases] A new official takes office, and the county yamen stays lit late into the night. On his first day in Puyang, Di Gong encounters a strange case: on Half-Moon Street, a butcher’s daughter is brutally murdered in her bedroom. A love poem and a gold hairpin point to a scholar. But hidden clues and the night watchman’s clappers reveal the real killer: a wandering fraud posing as a Daoist, using holy robes to di
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The Judge Dee Cases 狄公案
[Four Great Mysteries of Empress Wu Zetian + Di Renjie + detective mystery + stunning reversals + Chinese-style horror] When Di Renjie takes up his first post as magistrate of Changping County, he never expects one murder after another to rock the small town! News arrives that a Huzhou merchant has been murdered at the Li Lidun inn. The innkeeper, Kong Wande, protests his innocence, but the local headman, Hu De, refuses to let him off the hook. When Di Renjie investigates, the evidence points st
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The Liu Gong Case Files 刘公案
[Mind-Bending Mystery + Qing Dynasty Cold Cases + Shocking Twists + Chinese-Style Horror + Liu Luoguo] The Great Qing is at peace, but beneath the surface, unrest stirs in Jiangning Prefecture, Jinling. Liu Yong has barely arrived and settled in when he stumbles upon a shocking case: a married couple spends the night at an inn, but the husband dies under mysterious circumstances and the wife vanishes. The county magistrate beats a confession out of the innkeeper, who is then declared the murdere
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Half the City Beneath the Dark Rain 暗雨半城
In a small city, a mystery surrounding a beautiful young teacher sets off a series of bizarre murders. The brutal truth is beyond anyone's expectations, and reflections on human nature and society plunge people into an endless abyss...
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The Root of Sin 心罪源
Greed, desire, hatred, loathing, envy, jealousy... These are all the roots of human crime. The human heart is unfathomable; people can commit crimes over the smallest things. Yi Kai studied criminal psychology, but ended up making a living as a detective. An accidental car crash gave him astonishing powers of observation and perception. A chance encounter led Police Captain Xiang Tiange to recognize his abilities and put him to work. From then on, he embarked on a battle of wits against criminal
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The Mao Family Cases 毛公案
The Mao Gong Cases is a classic of Ming and Qing courtroom fiction. Centered on the legendary cases solved by Mao Dengke, an imperial censor sent to inspect Zhili during the Jiajing era, it presents the moral codes and judicial ideals of Ming society through shocking cases such as “A Wicked Brother Harms His Younger Brother” and “A Rebellious Son Kills His Mother.” The book consists of six chapters and follows the loyal official Lord Mao as he goes undercover to investigate and cleverly solve st
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The Mao Gong Cases in Plain Language: A Deadly Dispute Over an Inheritance 白话毛公案：兄弟争产酿血案
Modern Vernacular Translation of the Mao Gong Casebook retells the ancient casebook novel The Mao Gong Casebook in contemporary vernacular. It mainly tells the story of a tragic and inhuman murder during the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, when the Yao brothers of Liangxiang, Zhuozhou, fought over their father’s inheritance. The elder brother, Yao Geng, and his sister-in-law, Liu, were consumed by greed and plotted to seize the family estate. They went so far as to murder Yao Yi, the younger
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Madness in 1960: The Street Punk Leads the Courtyard Astray 疯癫1960：街溜子带偏四合院
[Crime Solving] [Comedy] [Nanluoguxiang] [My Dad Is a Hidden Big Shot] In 1960, with the enemy still lurking among the people and not yet fully eliminated, Xu Huai nearly got shot. Only after joining the Public Security Bureau did he discover that his father was a hidden big shot.
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Detective: I Just Started the Job, and My Deduction Skills Are Maxed Out! 侦探：刚入职，推理能力点满了！
Chen Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and activates a God-Tier Detective System from the start. Every case he solves earns him a new skill. So while his classmates spend their four years at police academy busy attending classes, Chen Mo is busy helping police stations across the country crack all kinds of cases. The body in a cardboard box, the headless woman in the elevator, the dormitory murder, and more... When he finally looks back, Chen Mo realizes that every one of his skills has reach
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I'm a Celebrity. What's Wrong with Doing a Side Hustle? 我一个明星，搞点副业很合理吧？
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Xia becomes a minor celebrity stuck near the bottom of the industry. Everyone knows that D-list celebrities are treated worse than dogs. Life is tough, so Lin Xia makes a living with odd jobs. To get by, Lin Xia has no choice but to take up some side gigs. Day one: picking a lock at someone’s home, netting 200 yuan. Day two: setting up a fortune-telling stall, netting 500 yuan. Day three: selling cartoon-print underwear at a street stall, netting 800
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Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺
[Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts.
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Nameless Detective Agency 无名侦探事务所
[Two male leads + true couple + both pure + no angst + secret crush + lots of romance from the middle onward!!] [Mystery and deduction. Police officer He Wei x Bai Jian'an, a morally ambiguous, two-faced “detective.” Working together to solve cases, no System, high intelligence, and all kinds of unhinged characters gathered in one place] Two years ago, an “ordinary” murder took place in Yue'an City. The killer’s method was nothing unusual, but the strange thing was that no clues were found at th
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Is It Really So Strange for a Delivery Driver to Show Up at a Crime Scene? 外卖员出现在案发现场很合理吧？
[System + crime-solving mystery + one heroine] Food delivery driver Su He accidentally gets caught up in a murder case and binds to a God-Tier Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him a reward! With the System's help, his life starts taking some unexpected turns. “Hello, I need to report a murder. Mingjia Community, Building 1, Unit 2, Apartment 603. Someone's been killed... Yes, I'm safe right now... Two people are dead... The killer? Well, I locked him outside... I had nothing to do with
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Witness to Death 死亡见证
The rating has only just opened, so take it as a rough guide. [Criminal Investigation Team Captain × Psychology Expert] [Cool, Quiet, and Reserved × Playful Little Brat] People say Captain Shang Shixu is so serious that everyone around him keeps their distance. But what is this they're seeing? Is that a pretty young woman beside the aloof boss everyone avoids? And is she hugging his waist? What is happening to the world? Their meeting, the cases that keep coming one after another... The Cowherd
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Infinite: Cast into the Realm of Death, but My Teammates Are Monsters 无限：堕入死界但我的队友是鬼怪
[Infinite Flow + Original Instances + Expansive Worldbuilding + Mild Horror + Ensemble Cast + Strong Female and Male Leads] On the first day Shou Qing fell into the realm of death, a man-eating Wendigo set its sights on her. Shou Qing thought she was done for. Who could have guessed that the very next moment, she would team up with the monster and cross eleven trials of life and death! Even more absurdly, no one had told her that every member of her team was nonhuman! A skin-peeler who loves to
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The Light of Justice Shines on Me 正道的光照耀着我
A sweet, easy-to-bully policewoman X a cold on the outside, lewd on the inside forensic doctor He Miaomiao has had a delicate constitution since childhood. She can sense the desires left behind by the dead before they died, and see vengeful spirits formed from their resentment. A great-aunt who could read the signs told her family that He Miaomiao needed to work for the government, solve wrongful-death cases, dispel resentment, guide the dead onward, and accumulate good karma. Only by basking
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Tracking the Unsolved Case 迷案追踪
Twenty years ago, a brutal murder took place in Jiangcheng. Song Xiaotian, captain of the city’s criminal investigation squad, was murdered at home. His pregnant wife, Yao Yao, was not only brutally killed but also had her abdomen cut open to take the baby. Their eldest son, Song Yunran, was five years old at the time. Traumatized by the ordeal, he lost his memory and could recall nothing about what had happened that night. Fearing the killer would come after him, Yao Yun, Song Yunran’s aunt, se
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I Finished Telling My Wife the Story, and She Called the Police 我给妻子讲完故事，她报警了
After I finished telling my wife a story, she called the police.
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She Knows Everything 她知道一切
A meeting at a crime scene set Jin Haiyang and Shen Liubai on the path to one another. As the youngest captain of the Haidu City criminal investigation team, he met the youngest forensic science professor at the police academy. Born into a distinguished family, capable and forceful, he saw only her among the countless people around him. Cool and quiet, brilliant beyond compare, she was nevertheless oblivious to the surging feelings between men and women. Fire and ice, the two stumbled into a rel
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My Twin Girlfriends: Beneath the Wedding Dress, My Girlfriend’s Sister Calls Me Hubby 我的双胞胎女友：婚纱下，女友妹妹叫我老公
My Twin Girlfriends: Beneath the Wedding Dress, My Girlfriend's Younger Sister Calls Me Her Husband
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Arcane Magic Out of Control 秘法失控
[Mystery and Crime Investigation]+ [Logical Deduction]+ [Bizarre Unsolved Cases]+ [Modern Magical World] A baffling murder and a corpse whose bones, flesh, and skin had been inexplicably separated drew Iris Moreau, a police detective on the homicide squad, into a dazzling yet dangerous world. The boundary between the demon realm and the mortal world was growing increasingly blurred. Legendary magicians, forbidden ancient arts, and killers who continually crossed ethical lines all came one after
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Her Mr. Yan 她的晏先生
Everyone on the team knew that Yan Xiu came from a good family, was highly educated, and carried himself with distinction. He was a ridiculously charming young gentleman, yet somehow still single. No one could figure out why. Whenever anyone asked, he would snap, “I'm immersed in my work and can't tear myself away.” Then a new partner joined the team. People secretly watched as Yan Xiu, the vice captain, a skilled fighter with quick reflexes and a spotless background, was pinned against the wal
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A True Spirit Medium 一个真实的出马仙
Spirit mediums are believed to bridge the human and spirit worlds. By drawing on the power of their “immortals,” they can help people avert disasters, resolve troubles, and predict good or bad fortune. Chosen from a young age to become a spirit medium, she is a young disciple burdened with a fate unlike anyone else’s. Her spirit altar is home to more than a hundred spirit beings, including fox, weasel, snake, and python spirits, spirits of the outer five types, and Qingfeng and Yanhun. Each ha
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The Broken Imperial Seal 残玺
“Anger is commonplace, but a smiling man is inscrutable...” Inspired by a hidden chapter of real history, this tells the story of a wild strategic-level scientist’s rise and growth. The premise is fresh, fantastical yet grounded in reality, and encompasses history, the workplace, the military, scientific research, national security, criminal investigation, elaborate schemes, murder, and modern high-stealth espionage, high-tech hacking, and high-intensity aerospace electronic warfare. The ending
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Beneath the Dusk 暮色之下
She is a rookie reporter who is determined to expose evil and root out darkness. No matter how many obstacles stand in her way, no matter how close she comes to death, she never stops. He is the most dangerous undercover agent behind enemy lines in the borderlands. Though surrounded by desire and sin, he stays true to himself, all for the day he can clear away the clouds and bring the criminal syndicate's many crimes into the open. Driven by their convictions, they set out along the same road, w
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A Chain of Mysteries 谜案连环
[Crime investigation and deduction + no female lead + episodic stories + light romance] In a corner stands an exquisite, beautiful ice sculpture, but it is made of a corpse. An anime character who seems to have stepped out of another dimension, yet has no breath left. And a blonde beauty asleep on a bench who just won't wake up... What connection do they share? Why did the killer do this? What secrets lie behind it all? The clues they uncover all seem to point to the unsolved case from seven yea
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The Path of Symbolic Sin 符号罪途
On a stormy night, wealthy businessman Zhao Hongyuan is found dead under mysterious circumstances in his locked study. Half a glass of poisoned wine and blurred fingerprints conceal murderous intent, while his wife Zhou Hui's lies and the cuts on her wrist deepen the suspicions. Veteran detective Zhang Cheng and rookie Lin Wei investigate. The vice president Gao Ming's gap in the surveillance footage, the private doctor Chen Bin's mysterious whereabouts, and a smuggling network exposed by an ano
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The Esper Girl Takes on the World 异能少女闯世界
Cai Cai is a girl with extraordinary strength in her arms. At nineteen, she travels to the southern country to study dessert-making. There, she meets the owner's daughter, who can teleport, as well as David, who has the same supernatural strength. The mystery-solving begins after Chapter 31.
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The Twin-Star Detectives' Legendary Cases 双星警探破案传奇
The criminal investigation team has a pair widely hailed as a match made in heaven: Su Lin is as cold as a blade and a profiling genius; Jiang Che is as gentle as water and an interrogation expert. After three years working together, they have solved every case, earning the nickname “the Twin Stars of the police force.” No one knows that Su Lin’s inspiration for her profiles comes from empathizing with the souls of the dead, while Jiang Che’s confidence in interrogations comes from his ability t
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Ragnarok: I Ascend to Godhood Through Cunning 诸神黄昏：我以诡计登神
[No System, a little deduction, all about the tricks.] Announcer’s voice: In the post-civilization era, the sun (...static...) The picture suddenly cuts out. (A bespectacled boy appears on screen.) “Sorry to interrupt this story introduction. We have an important announcement first.” “My name is… never mind. You’ll find out soon, so it doesn’t matter…” “What matters is…” The boy grins brightly. “At the beginning of this story, I will become the murderer.” “I’ll record everything I do. Let’s see
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Every Beginning Has a Cause, Every Rebirth Its Consequence 终始有因，轮回有果
This is a mystery novel. There is no paranormal content. The 1997 Asian financial crisis had a severe impact on every aspect of life for the people of Thailand. As the financial tycoon Soros plundered the economy, a series of stories that should never have happened began to unfold. Their effects can still be felt today. This novel follows two high school students whose misguided actions during the financial crisis set off a chain reaction, ultimately leading to a terrible catastrophe. Even twent
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The Great Coroner: Xilai, Another One’s Dead 大仵作：喜来，又死一个
She was a posthumous child pulled from a pile of corpses. She spent her days among the dead, playing with skulls and amusing herself by catching maggots. To uncover the truth behind her adoptive father's death, she even took it upon herself to dissect a corpse. Others mocked her as a freak and kept their distance, but the ruthless commander of the realm's forces doted on her beyond measure. Dismemberment and cremation, for love or for money. In this bizarre world, joy comes from seeing clearly f
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I Solve Cases to Score Free Food at the Court of Judicial Review 我靠破案在大理寺蹭吃蹭喝
Mystery/Detective Frost veils his silver mask, dust stains his white hair, and Pei Shaoqing's fate was written in the Book of Life and Death long ago. Yet he insists on using the last of his strength to defy fate and unravel the mystery that even the gods have fallen silent before, all for her. Born with white hair, he was destined to grow old by her side; and the name Jiang Tang is the only sweetness in his life.
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The Six-Nosed Fox Demon 六鼻狐妖
Linghu Yin of Ningcheng is a renowned constable of the Six Fan Gate, known by the nickname Fox Demon of the Six Noses. He is exceptionally skilled, and his foxlike cunning in solving cases often helps him spot the smallest clues where none seem possible. So come along with me and see how this official, Linghu Yin, cracks his cases.
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The Net of Justice: Part One, The Killer Cannot Escape 天网第一部真凶难逃
“The net of justice may be wide, but nothing escapes it.” Do you think you can get past her keen eye? The Web’s Number One Female Criminal Investigator: The Killer Can’t Escape Ye Bailing is the leader of a criminal investigation squad. Since joining the force, she has never stopped moving forward, come rain or shine. No matter how difficult a case is, she is determined to uncover the truth. This time, however, she faces a murder case beyond anything she could have expected...
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The Mirror Clown 镜像小丑
Why does a famous hotel perched on a cliff stand abandoned and in ruins? Why were the kindhearted tycoon’s adopted children murdered one after another after his death? The clown from the mirror has returned after many years. Is this a collapse of morality, or the destruction of humanity? Welcome to “Into Science” [strikethrough]. Welcome to the Cliffside Hotel.
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