Mystery Novels Rated 9.0 or Higher, with Smart Characters, Strong Deduction, and Smooth Pacing 求9.0以上悬疑类，智商在线，推理性强，情节流畅
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- 351 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 191Reads9.6Score—Shelves
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The Shackles of Misty Alley 雾巷枷锁
A corpse is found in an ancient well, reopening an old case. A butterfly jade pendant binds the fates of Chen Ci, a writer who has spent seven years pursuing the killer, and Lu Zheng, a detective hemmed in by the rules. Symbol-filled notes, torn field records, a second skeleton of unknown identity... Amid the fog of the narrow alleys, the two go from opposition to partnership, closing in step by step on the truth: a loan-sharking gang has colluded with senior figures at the police bureau. As sec
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Thriller Game: I Can See the Hints 惊悚游戏：我能看到提示
[Ridiculous comedy + power fantasy. Not scary. If that's not your thing, move along!] A mysterious dimension descends upon Earth, randomly selecting humans to take part in a horror game. Uncensorable horror livestreams spread across the internet, allowing all of humanity to witness one terrifying spectacle after another. Gu Yi is unlucky enough to be chosen as an adventurer. Fortunately, he can see mysterious hints. Following the hints, Gu Yi gradually seeks out the truth, only to discover that
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Anti-Scam Livestream: The Station’s Cells Are Full 反诈直播：所里快蹲不下了
Scammer: Our records show an overseas purchase of 200,000 US dollars on your account. Did you make this purchase yourself? Lu Ze: Yes, I made it myself. What about it? The scammer thought, You sure know how to brag! Lu Ze: I never thought... the fact that I bought weapons overseas would finally come to light! Using his god-tier voice imitation skill, Lu Ze mimics the voices of several underlings, as well as the sound of an AK firing in full auto. The scammer's face turns pale. “I'm calling the p
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The Hidden Truth 隐秘的真相
This novel tells twelve criminal investigation stories in short-story form. Back then, there were no cameras covering every street corner, nor modern investigative tools such as DNA testing. The only things investigators could rely on to solve cases were trace evidence and logical deduction. Yet even under those conditions, veteran detectives used their keen observations, meticulous reasoning, and extraordinary insight to cut through layers of uncertainty and unravel one mystery after another. T
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- 356 My System Is Out of Line, and I’ve Become a Trouble-Making Streamer 系统不正经，我成搞事主播 [Livestream] [System] [No Female Lead] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Comedy] [Wild Antics] [Laugh-Out-Loud] A small-time streamer is doing an outdoor Livestream when he runs into a five-step snake and gets bitten! A deadly situation! How can he survive? Li Ke: “Don’t panic, guys. According to local folklore, anyone bitten by a five-step snake will die after taking five steps. So let’s try walking backward five steps and see if we can turn this around!” Li Ke: “If it works, I’ll walk backward ninety 12.9kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
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After Losing My Memory, I Found Out in My Diary That I'm the Killer 失忆后，在日记本里看到我是凶手
Tang Li lost her memory after surgery for a brain tumor. Every day, she relies on her diary just to remember what she did before. But one morning, she gets up, opens the diary, and finds an account of how she killed someone... To keep anyone from finding out, she checks the hidden body over and over every day. But the diary keeps listing more and more dead people...
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Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录
A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand
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The Record of the Southern Dream 寻南梦录
At fifteen, Li Qingyu had an incredibly long dream... The dream contained everything, including human nature. It felt so real, or perhaps it was all true. [Tragic bad ending / suspense and horror / fantasy and the supernatural] [The heroine relies on no one, least of all the male lead. She survives through her own strength, with a clear head and no saintly tendencies.] To outsiders: [A cold, aloof divine lord VS an evil girl with amnesia] The legendary Ghost River was actually like this, a place
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- 360 I Joined a Variety Show and Got Branded an SSS-Rank Fugitive 参加节目的我，被认为是SSS级逃犯 “You’re tasked with playing an escaped convict. How long can you last while the world’s top investigators and hackers pull out all the stops to catch you?” Qin Hao transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that he’s taking part in a hugely popular public safety education show. The longer he stays on the run, the bigger the prize money, with a top prize of one hundred billion! Qin Hao obtains the God-Tier Escapee System. As long as he takes action and puts on a show, he can gain countless i 227Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 361 I'm the Brother of the Female Simp: From the Start, I Put Family First and Turned In My Own Sister 我，舔狗女配她哥，开局大义灭亲 Ning Tiancheng transmigrated into a trashy wish-fulfillment novel he had been reading. But he wasn't the protagonist. He was the brother of a female side character who fawned over the protagonist. His sister was so obsessed with groveling at the protagonist's feet that she was even willing to ruin the entire Ningyuan Group! A sister like that had to be sacrificed to the heavens! So, at the board meeting, Ning Tiancheng, who had prepared well in advance, announced, “As of today, I am removing my 34Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 362 One Sentence from Me, and a Death Row Inmate Walks Free 我一句话，死刑犯在法庭无罪释放 [System + lawyer + livestreaming + Madman Zhang San + no heroine + no romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + face-slapping + no logic. Short dramas have been released in multiple versions in China and overseas.] Xue Shen, an intern lawyer earning 2,000 yuan a month, unlocks the Ultimate Lawyer System from the start and takes the legal world by storm, shocking the globe! With his cheat ability Suspect A: “I killed someone.” Xue Shen: “You’re innocent.” Later, the truth comes out: the suspect rea 6.1kReads9.2Score753Shelves
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The Silent Clay Figure 沉默的泥塑
A Buddhist tooth from the Northern Wei, Ming Dynasty painted sculptures, and secrets a thousand years old hidden in a laboratory. An inexplicable foreign object lies sealed inside the chest of a statue of Weituo. Sculptors, archaeologists, antiquities dealers, and a mysterious family are all searching for answers. When the truth comes to light, they discover that some secrets, once opened, can never be closed again.
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Mysterious Revival: My Memories Bury Vengeful Ghosts 神秘复苏我的记忆埋葬着厉鬼
Warning: It gets more and more brain-bending as you read! Extremely high intelligence and logical reasoning as the characters solve paranormal mysteries! Don't read if you dislike mind games! Everyone gradually awakens to their powers or takes the abilities of ghosts! High intelligence + aesthetics of despair Scenarios: Dreams, zombies, myths and legends, Cthulhu, and more Difficulty: “Despair!” (No harem, no System, no invincible protagonist, no formulas, no power fantasy, no brainless characte
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- 365 Global Manhunt: Playing the Ultimate Villain from the Start 全球通缉：开局扮演最强反派 [Urban] [Scheming] [System] [Livestream] The world’s ten biggest security firms, a billion-dollar reward, and elite contestants from every walk of life playing villains in a crime drama! High-speed chases, intense firefights, and desperate escapes! With crime rates rising around the world, this hugely popular livestream show simulates the methods and psychology behind all kinds of crimes, allowing authorities to predict and prevent them. The refined but ruthless Xiao Wuye starts out playing the 1.3kReads8.5Score135Shelves
- 366 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 108Reads9.6Score—Shelves
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No. 37, Qingyu Lane 青雨巷37号
No. 37 Qingyu Alley
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- 368 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 117Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 369 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 126Reads9.3Score102Shelves
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Night In, Day Out 夜入白出
[Thriller and Horror + Infinite-Flow + Mystery and Deduction + Exploring Strange Realms + Supernatural + Time Loops + The Emotions of Life] The night wind blows. Lie down and sleep. Don’t open your eyes, and no ghosts will appear. If you do open them, look beside the bed: a hand is among the books. Look by the window: a head with no eyes is staring at the bed. Lu Chen, Ye Xiaoqian, Wu Ziyu, Xu Zhuang, and Hu Yingying accidentally touched an old book filled with ghost stories about wronged souls.
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Reading Memories 窥视记忆
Chen Yuan’s life followed a routine precise to the minute: he woke at the same time every morning, every object was placed with millimeter accuracy, and everything had adhered to the same order for five years. Until one morning, the routine began to go wrong. His cup was two centimeters out of place, the coffee machine’s settings had been altered, and the familiar cityscape was completely askew. In his orderly world, these tiny anomalies were cracks hinting at a far deeper collapse. At the cent
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My Legal Mother Says Everyone Is Equal, So She Wants to Bear the Stablehand's Child 嫡母说人人平等，要给马夫生孩子
My stepmother said everyone was equal and wanted to have a child by the stable hand
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The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照
[Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters
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The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃
(Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj
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The Eerie Mansion 诡异公馆
[Mystery + wild imagination + infinite-loop survival + no romance + the paranormal + challenge stages + shocking twists] After an accident, Chen Yan plunges into the depths of a sinister mansion. Here, life and death are the task, and fear is part of everyday life. He must struggle to survive one deadly challenge after another, trading his life for another's. But when he claws his way up from a mountain of corpses, he discovers an even more terrifying truth: the horrors that should have devou
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- 376 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 49Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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A Ghost’s Resignation 幽灵的辞呈
[Mystery and crime-solving + ensemble cast + two male leads] An intern jumps from a building and falls to his death. Afterward, many people claim to have seen his ghost in the office building late at night. As Police Officer Zhou Heng investigates the case, an email from the intern who jumped to his death suddenly arrives in his inbox. Everyone suspects the intern couldn't accept being falsely accused, and has returned from the dead to take revenge.
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- 378 Major Crime Investigation Files 刑侦大案录 6.7kReads6.8Score416Shelves
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The Deadly Madman 致命狂人
(A gifted university student and profiler with a dark childhood, Su Dimo, and Jin Ruyan, a deep-thinking, two-faced captain of the criminal police, x Qin Yuchen, a natural-born star. Jin Ruyan would tear someone apart bone by bone for the one he loves, while Qin Yuchen's secret crush is doomed. How will their story end?) She is a psychology prodigy at university, and she sees Jin Ruyan as the knight of her life. When bizarre cases come to light, her knight grows more and more distant... She s
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The Lawyer and the Judge: I Killed My Client 律师审判者：我杀了我的当事人
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- 381 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 116Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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I Serve Last Meals to the Rich in the Powerful Elite’s Kitchen 我在权贵厨房给富豪配断头饭
People say a chef is a magician who holds the secret to happiness. But in Su Ye’s eyes, ingredients are elements, cooking is chemistry, and the dining table is the place closest to death, aside from the operating table. An undercooked mushroom, a cup of overreacted bitter almond tea, a carefully planned dinner of foods that “clash.” In this hospital, some patients’ causes of death can never be determined from an autopsy report. A licensed nutritionist, Su Ye wields a yanagiba that can slice top-
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Mystery and Legend Stories 悬疑传奇故事
The novel is divided into two parts. One part recounts unsolved mystery cases from across the country, along with human bones and mummies buried underground for years. In the end, the wronged are vindicated, and the stories deliver one astonishing twist after another. The other part features classic Chinese tales of mystery and horror, including age-old miscarriages of justice, treasure-hunting in ancient tombs, and Taoist priests driving out ghosts. Through dramatic twists and terrifying storyl
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- 384 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 396Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Seventh End of Time 第七个时间尽头
[Mystery and deduction + challenge-based adventures + time sci-fi + limitless imagination + duo pairing + smart protagonists] When the dead appear on the streets, time-code analyst Lin Xu is ordered to investigate. But he discovers that the organization he serves is covering up a truth capable of tearing reality apart. He must decipher the forbidden symbols left behind by the dead, escape the labyrinth of memory, and uncover the ultimate secret at the end of time. Once the fog is cleared and the
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Rule Horror: I Am Above the Rules 规则怪谈：吾即规则之上
[Two Male Leads] [Both Powerful] [Top] [Nonhuman] [Mutually Devoted] [Happy Ending] [Lighthearted Invincibility] [Mindless Power Fantasy] [Extra Sweet] [Multiple Side Couples] [Final Boss] [Rule-Based Horror] [Pure-Hearted Wooden Top × Cold-Faced, Easily Flustered Bottom] ⚠️ This novel is currently being revised. The revision has reached Chapter 136. Shi Mo had lived for tens of millions of years and was so bored he was going crazy. He had created the rule-based horror games and had grown tire
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Case Files of the Special Operations Task Force 特别行动组破案实录
The municipal public security bureau's criminal investigation unit establishes a psychological special cases team to tackle difficult cases by analyzing behavioral patterns. Led by Lu Anning, the team has five formidable specialists, each with a role to play: sharp-tongued forensic pathologist Shen Yan, female sharpshooter Cheng Sa, hacker Chen Mo, modification expert Zhao Yan, and skilled negotiator Zhou Xubai. Their cases are solved through psychology and rigorous investigative techniques. The
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- 388 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 798Reads7.8Score—Shelves
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My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙
My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day
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- 390 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 712Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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The Song of the Lonely Warrior Came from Inside the Wall 墙里传来孤勇者
The Lonely Warrior echoes from behind the wall.
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I'm Just a Police Intern, I Really Didn't Mean to Solve the Case 我就一实习警察，真没想破案啊
[Crime Investigation + Mystery + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week + Transmigration + A Little Romance] Su Xiaoxiao died in a car accident and transmigrated into the body of a rookie police officer. With barely a roof over her head, she discovered that her eyes had gained a special ability: she could see bad things that were about to happen. Hey, young master, whatever you do, don't turn left when you go out. Hey, mom, keep a close eye on your child. Oh no, Master, put on your bulletproof vest before
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Crows Descend on Sin City 鸦落罪城
(Mystery and deduction + criminal investigation + anti-drug operations + anti-corruption + mind-bending crimes) In Yacheng, Nanhuai Province, in the 1990s, a sensational case shocked the nation: the 712 serial murders. The case reached far and wide. The suspect brutally murdered a family of three, but the Qingsha Syndicate behind the killer controlled Yacheng's police, procuratorate, and courts, keeping justice out of reach. To solve the case, Zhou Zhen of the Nanhuai Provincial Police Departmen
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- 394 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 101Reads7.4Score—Shelves
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Dissociators: The Chronicles of Saint Judas Island 解离者：圣犹大岛纪事
On the picturesque island of St. Judas, a series of locked-room mysteries and cunning murders unfold. The person who comes to solve them is a professional assassin. He understands killing and strategy, using a killer's instincts to unravel one impossible crime after another. Beneath the sunlit island, lies, old grudges, and conspiracies steadily rise to the surface. With classic locked-room mysteries at its heart, an immersive deserted-island atmosphere, and four linked cases, the story asks at
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- 396 Dissociator: Financial Bullets 解离者：金融子弹 Rick takes on a covert chain of missions spanning three continents: assassinate the key figures in charge of five ports. At the same time, he uses the hedge fund behind his client to make a killing, sending his personal wealth skyrocketing. Danger follows close behind. Britain’s MI5 and Interpol trace the clues back to Rick, reopening last year’s unsolved assassination cases and quietly closing their international dragnet around him. The unlikely alliance between assassination and capital stirs 271Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻
The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight
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I Pinched Myself Awake, Only to Enter an Even Deeper Dream 我掐醒了自己，却进了更深的梦
I pinched myself awake, only to fall into an even deeper dream
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- 399 The Dissociator: The Canary Heist 解离者：金丝雀大劫案 This series focuses on a heist of the century. What seemed like an ordinary day at Collingwood Global Investment Bank is shattered when a gang of armed robbers breaks in. They force the bank employees to follow their orders. In the aftermath, a chief inspector caught in a dilemma races against time, vowing to discover who stole the £3.9 billion and why. 73Reads—Score—Shelves
- 400 Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 83Reads—Score—Shelves
