Mystery and Crime-Solving Novel Recommendations 破案 悬疑 推理的小说 求推荐
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Crime Scene 凶案现场
Take a close look at every crime scene. With unconventional investigative methods and a uniquely compelling perspective, you'll feel as if you're right there experiencing each murder. Keep some fast-acting heart medication nearby, just in case. Case one: A 19-year-old high school student is found dumped in a park, with his mouth full of feces. What did the victim do before he died? Case two: A top domestic actress is brutally murdered in her home. The scene is horrifying, and her body has been m
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The First-Rank Detective 一品神探
He was a beat cop in a remote little backwater, so who could have guessed he'd stumble onto a murder case? Well, there's nothing for it but to step up and take charge! Maybe his luck really was turning around: at the city Public Security Bureau, he unexpectedly met a beautiful policewoman with a frosty demeanor. See how this low-ranking cop turns the tables, wins her heart, climbs to the top, and lives out an extraordinary career as a master detective!
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City of Sinful Love 罪爱之城
He was a rich kid who grew up in the slums, with impressive martial arts skills and an untamed spirit. He was suddenly assigned to Songzhao City as captain of the criminal investigation squad. She was the team’s top student and tech geek, always drinking goji berry tea. She seemed quiet, but hid tremendous strength within. At the start of the new year, these two oddballs were forced to become partners. Together, they solved one bizarre case after another, going from clashing at every turn to spa
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My Life, Named After You 我的生命,以你为名
A miserable criminal investigation team leader stops Lin Xian, who's reexamining a crime scene. “The autopsy report is ready. Want to take a look?” Lin Xian doesn't even look up. “No, just tell me.” “Yao Xi did the autopsy.” The report is snatched away at once. “Go stand somewhere else. You're blocking the light.” “???” Talk about a double standard! One night, Yao Xi gets a call. “Want to investigate a scene together?” “No.” Yao Xi is about to hang up. “Lin Xian is there too.” “See you in two mi
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Damn! Is This a Short Drama or Footage of a Murder? 刑啊!你这是短剧,还是凶案录像
[One heroine] Officer, let me explain! This really is a short video, not a crime scene recording! Lu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a college student with a fragile constitution. [Ding! Host has obtained the script “Owl-Headed, Human-Bodied Creature.” To help Host film the short video successfully, you have received the temporary skill “Prop Making LV1.”] [The video reaches over 100,000 views. “Prop Making LV1” becomes a permanent skill.] However, Lu Ming never expected that
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥,你是警察啊,不是道士!
[If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T
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The Secret Iron Box 秘密铁盒
[Mystery • Deduction • Romance • Dark • Human Nature • Two Male Leads] The owner of a villa suddenly dies. Was it suicide, an accident, or murder? A single murder case dredges up the young men’s and women’s painful, secret pasts. Their love and hate, tangled relationships, and memories of youth stir beneath the surface. A girl’s secret adolescence, hidden in an iron box, and the crimes behind a charity aid program have remained unknown to all. There are more cases behind this one. Who has been w
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I Just Transmigrated and Solved a Major Case. That's Totally Reasonable, Right? 刚穿越,就破了大案,很合理吧
My new novel is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Officer Lu's Journal 小陆警官的手记
Lu Chengwen: I'm a detective. I only believe in evidence. Lin Xiao: I can feel corpses talking. Lu Chengwen: Say that again? Lin Xiao: The corpse says it wants to go home. Lu Chengwen: ...Fine. Lead the way. Author: If you two keep chatting, the readers will all go next door to read romance ◉‿◉
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Reborn After Death: I Became a Time-and-Space Detective 死后重生:我成为时空侦探
[Big Ideas + Crime Solving + Strong Female Lead + Golden Finger + Supernatural Horror] Ye Ling never imagined that after dying of late-stage cancer, she would be forced into the Time-Space Detective Corps and become its 99th detective. She has to earn enough points to get home! In the blink of an eye, she’s faced with some bloodthirsty body-stitching murder case! Then a dismemberment case. Then cases involving feeding people to pigs and dogs. And even a haunted house case... Best of all, there’s
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The Strange Her 奇怪的她
The new girl is an oddball, but she’s smart and solves cases fast, so everyone figures they can put up with her personality flaws. She often forgets she’s “weak” and rushes into things, but she’s quick to admit her mistakes and has the right attitude, so everyone decides they can put up with her a little longer. Until one day, she sets her sights on the captain of the criminal investigation team. That’s going too far! He’s handsome, rich, and brilliant, and the two of them together look… well, l
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Thug! 老弟,你是警察,不是暴徒啊
Reborn? Xiao Mu: No need to panic. This is nothing. Remembering how he had worked himself to death in his previous life, he wanted to live a lazy life this time around. Fate’s Wheel: No, you don’t. Congratulations, you’ve acquired the abilities of a human weapon, an all-seeing eye, mastery of a hundred martial arts, superhuman hearing, an extraordinary physique, an unparalleled sense of smell, the power to imitate, and more... Xiao Mu: ( ̄ω ̄;) Are you trying to force me to show off in front of ev
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After She Learned to Speak Plant, She Became Infamously Stinky 听懂植物语言后,她【臭】名昭著
[The rating has just come in and will rise later] [Mystery]+ [Crime Solving]+ [understanding plant language] The protagonist is smart, and her golden finger gives her an edge without making her invincible. At home: Kuikui, the legitimate eldest plant, constantly competing for attention + a pothos with maxed-out clinginess + an old luan tree skilled in both offense and defense + a cactus that won't hesitate to stick you... Chance encounters: an aquatic-plant choir + an original reed marsh + a sob
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I’m Trapped in an Endless Case File 我陷入了无限案卷
A cool-headed genius detective heroine × a street thug hero with a sharp instinct Chen Meng has solved countless cases. After every case is closed, she returns to “reality”: familiar streets, ordinary dates, and people who are alive. Then she discovers that none of it is reality. It’s the beginning of the next case file. The cases never end, because she has never truly left.
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The Deranged Horror Fan Has a Blast Playing by the Rules 惊悚疯批在规则里玩嗨了
[Infinite survival + horror games + no CP + a story of redemption] Mu Yuanwei, a little lunatic who grew up in a psychiatric hospital, is dragged into a survival game. She meets plenty of lovely living companions and captures NPCs as toys, having the time of her life. While everyone else frets over the plot and the rules for triggering events, she’s happily playing with her pets. As a walking stack of buffs, she loves looking for loopholes in the rules and taking out NPCs. She’s a professional a
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Married Into the Family for Good Luck, Now the Policewoman Cuffs Me Every Day to Solve Cases 入赘冲喜,警花天天铐我破案
Married Into the Family to Bring Good Fortune, Now the Policewoman Handcuffs Me Every Day to Solve Cases
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You Asked Me to Investigate Match-Fixing, but I Took the National Team to the World Cup 让你查假球,你带国足进世界杯
You Were Supposed to Investigate Match-Fixing, but You Took the Chinese National Team to the World Cup
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Driving Mom Crazy to Steal the Inheritance 逼疯老妈抢遗产
[Economic Crime Investigation + Mystery + Deduction + High Intelligence + Psychologist] Gu Xiaoqiang is a top overseas behavioral psychologist. His hidden identity is an investigator in the Financial Crime Analysis Division of the International Criminal Police Organization’s “W.P.A.” After his father dies suddenly without leaving a will, his older sister Gu Xiaolin, her husband Zhao Yunpeng, a judge, and their lawyer son Zhao Junhao begin a campaign of psychological manipulation against their mo
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I Solve Cases to Put Food on the Table 我靠破案养家糊口
Reborn in 1958, I moved into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Did I transmigrate into a TV drama or transmigrate into a book? Good thing I have so many buffs stacked that I don't have to spend all day playing family power games in one little courtyard!
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Crime-Solving Group Chat: From the Start, Hannibal Taught Me How to Find Bodies 破案群聊:开局汉尼拔教我找尸体
Shen Ting transmigrates to a parallel world, where he activates the Detective System and becomes the owner of a crime-solving chat group. Hacker Kiko, Tang Tan's Qin Feng, forensic examiner Qin Ming, White Night detective Guan Hongfeng, and even chef Hannibal and educator Jigsaw are all in the group. As long as he solves cases, the group can bring in more detectives and deranged killers. Shen Ting can also earn skill coins to redeem all kinds of crime-solving skills: Anthropometry! Criminal
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I'm a Detective on Who's the Murderer 我在明侦当侦探
[A spin-off of Who’s the Murderer] A celebrity is caught secretly playing a murder-mystery game and gets carried by fans into a detective game show called Who’s the Murderer. Whether you become the king of gold bars or the guiding light of deduction depends on what evidence you can find. (All cases are adapted from the variety show. The people who are meant to appear will still appear, and those who are meant to leave will still leave. But I’ll do my best to make everyone’s dreams come true and
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Surrender 自首
(Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed
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The Dead Cross the River at Chang’an 长安尸渡
A detective story whose heroine can perform autopsies and solve cases. Once her period of mourning was over, Wen Qingning packed her bags and returned to Chang’an, only to find that her fiancé, Shen Muhuai, had not only taken a concubine but also married a new wife. His household was practically a garden in full bloom. Shen Muhuai gazed at Wen Qingning tenderly. “A Ning, I took a concubine for your sake and married a new wife for your sake! A Ning, I did it all for you!” Wen Qingning looked at S
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Everyday Cases in Great Yong 大雍破案日常
After transmigrating, Zhu Ning, a forensic doctor, returned to her old line of work. So what if coroners have low status? So what if people look down on female coroners? Want to solve a case? Then you’ll have to listen to me!
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The Devil Reversed 恶魔逆位
“If I wanted to kill him, I wouldn’t use a method this laughably clumsy.” After the black-haired girl in black finished speaking in the interrogation room, she didn’t say another word. The way she calmly studied the photograph made it seem more like she was admiring the victim’s gruesome death. In the photo was a cold, white bathtub filled with shocking amounts of blood. A man lay slumped inside, his deathly pale body visible only from the shoulders up. The deceased was Zhou Haixiong. He had
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Roleplaying in an Escape Game 在逃生游戏里角色扮演
[Infinite-Flow + Horror and Suspense + Two Powerful Leads + Twists + Ensemble Cast] [When human nature brushes against the narrow gap between death and survival, desire and pain become entangled. Will you tame despair, or enter a cycle that leads to certain doom?] On the verge of death, Bai Zheng was dragged into a horror game that required players to stay in character. She didn't want to die, so she chose to become a player. The game's evaluation of her was: [Player, please be careful not to br
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The Society Heiress and Forensic Doctor: Dancing in the Heart of the Cold Detective 名媛女法医:在高冷探长心尖起舞
[Fictional Republican-Era Setting + Episodic Mystery Cases + Happy Ending] In Republican-era Haicheng, one baffling and dangerous case after another unfolds. Are they the work of ghosts and curses, or the schemes of men? A sharp-witted, sharp-tongued, aloof detective and a witty, daring beauty of a forensic examiner join forces to cut through layer upon layer of mystery. Yet whenever the truth comes to light, a faint fragrance always lingers in the air. When the glittering extravagance fades, th
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The Crime-Chasing Detective 追凶神探
Legendary police officer Song Lang is reborn and goes incognito as a driver named Chen Shi. He had hoped to live quietly, but fate had other plans: Chen Shi gets caught up in another murder case... A company that preaches a ruthless corporate culture and slaughters its employees while everyone stays silent; A wayward young man who skins his childhood sweetheart alive, with tears in his eyes, to get “justice”; A middle-aged couple bound together by a dark secret, each raising a blade against the
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Pursuing Truth Through Black and White 黑白逐真
She was once the “Black Queen,” a woman incapable of emotion. By chance, she saved him after his undercover identity was exposed. After an explosion, she became a pitiful orphan from a welfare home, and he took her in and protected her at every turn. Justice versus darkness: a journey of truth-seeking for a girl with a divided personality!
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The Unsolved Case: The Truth of Evil 悬案之真实的罪恶
[Short, self-contained cases] + [Inspired by true cases] + [Won't eat or sleep, only solve cases] Twisted human nature has given rise to one bizarre real-life tragedy after another! Join the protagonist, Liang Zheng, as he clears away the fog and probes the depths of humanity's ugliness. A suspenseful detective novel with a mind-bending ending you won't see coming!
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Case Files: A Collection of Dark, Suspenseful, and Terrifying Short Stories 诡案录:暗夜悬疑惊悚短篇集
In the rearview mirror on a rainy night, his missing ex-wife’s reflection overlaps with a victim from a serial dismemberment case. Beside the stitches in the emergency room, a stranger’s tattoo bears the same blood-written code found on the wall when his sister disappeared. In a locked room at a rain-lashed manor, a photograph of his late father turns up in an enemy’s files. The massacre that wiped out an entire family twenty years ago was only the beginning of a deadly game… A series of bizarr
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The Shadow Serpent Mystery 影蛇谜局
The Shadow Serpent Mystery
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Pursuing the Killer in a Mystery Case 谜案追凶
(Detective with multiple personalities + criminal psychology and deduction + bizarre supernatural abilities + high-IQ criminal organization + graphic content + suspense and horror + not for the faint of heart + an exposé of human nature + sound values + dark themes) Are people born good? No! People are born evil. For the sake of profit, innocent people become wronged souls. Because of mockery, countless beautiful young blossoms wither in an instant. Because of jealousy, warm and happy families f
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Case Files of a Homicide Detective 缉凶笔记
I’m a college student, and fate has entangled me in one bizarre murder case after another! A woman’s corpse sealed in concrete, an unidentified charred body missing its genitals, a deranged killer who feeds on human brains… One brutal, bloody murder after another, and one appalling mastermind after another! Driven by the fire of justice in my heart, I’m caught up in a series of dangerous, thrilling hunts for the killers…
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Just Straight-Up Deduction? That's My Specialty! 单纯推理是吧?这个我擅长啊!
[A Conan-style episodic story. No romance or ambiguous relationships, grounded, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot, with deduction and crime-solving] “Like Detective Conan? Then don’t miss this book!” There’s no such thing as a perfect crime. And if there is, then I must have committed it. While pursuing one of the world’s greatest criminal masterminds, Xian Yifan, hailed as the youngest great detective in history, died alongside his quarry. After accidentally transmigrating, he
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An Invitation 一封邀请函
Keywords: Snowbound mountain lodge + Ensemble cast + Campus + Novella An invitation to a high school reunion. Twelve letters, twelve people. As murders follow one after another in the dead of night, each more horrifically brutal than the last, is the killer one of the twelve, or someone else entirely? The truth behind the events is a secret hidden for years. Thorns in the darkness ensnare everyone in fear and unease. No one knows who holds the knife and who is at its mercy. Amid tangled love and
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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She’s Destined to Lack Ghosts, the Ghost King’s Ghosts 她命中缺鬼,鬼王的鬼
[Metaphysics · reborn · sweet romance · mutual salvation] When people die, they leave behind thoughts and resentment. If fate grants them the chance, they can become ghosts and monsters. Ghosts and monsters cannot enter the underworld or be reincarnated. Gu Yousheng inherited a bloodline legacy and was born a spirit medium. Before she turned six, she cried and tried every way she could to get rid of her gift. After she turned six, she worked diligently to resolve grievances and troubles, becomin
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Three Souls as the Betrothal Gift, Seven Spirits as the Wedding Present 三魂为聘,七魄为礼
Everyone has three hun and seven po souls. Yin Wenjiu has only one hun and one po: an unidentified resentful soul and an unidentified life soul. Both exist to keep her body alive. But she only cares about enjoying the moment. She tells fortunes with perfect accuracy and charges the highest price! She won’t go out of her way to stay alive, nor will she actively seek death. She waited at Yunmeng Marsh for five years. If someone came to save her, she would go with them; if no one did, she would dig
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Officer, Stop Guessing. I’m Really Innocent 警官别猜了,我真是无辜的啊
[Don’t read this. Check out the new book with the same title instead.] Everyone thought the young heiress of the Si family was a timid pushover, known in their circle for liking nothing but corpses and barely speaking. But no one expected that after disappearing and returning, the once timid, soft-spoken girl would change her name, become decisive and ruthless, and join the criminal investigation squad. When faced with a case, she calmly analyzes the situation and offers to act as bait to help t
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Mysterious Case Files: The Strange Mark 破案迷踪之诡异的印记
The restaurant’s delicious “ostrich meat,” a husband drowned in the bathroom, half a charred foot in a trash can, a woman hanged in a roast duck oven, a dead woman giving birth, raising little ghosts, “human centipedes,” burying people alive as construction sacrifices, and a cat abuser. The methods of murder are endlessly varied: killing by chance, hypnosis, drugs, dismemberment, murder, suicide, crimes of passion, and revenge killings. The victims bear eerie markings. Little fingers go missing.
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Forensic Bone Evidence 法医骨证
A torrential downpour triggered a landslide, and a young woman's hip bone was swept into a vegetable garden in Dongjia County. Su Tianyi, a forensic bone-evidence expert with the Public Security Department, discovered marks indicating the body had been dismembered with a chainsaw. Alongside Miao Xiaoyu, a local female forensic examiner from Dongjia County, he dug up three more bags of remains at the scene, but found no skull. The garden's owner, the prime suspect, suddenly hanged himself. The ca
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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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The Detective's Glory 刑警荣耀
Wang Wei is a veteran detective with twenty years of police experience and a three-time champion of the Tian Nan Provincial Police Academy’s grappling and combat tournament. By a twist of fate, he is reborn twenty years in the past, just after graduating from the academy and starting his career. From then on, he makes a name for himself. No major case, strange case, cold case, or decades-old case is too difficult for Wang Wei. Give him a moment, and he’ll crack it! If you’re a criminal, no matte
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Edge of the Truth (Two-Book Set) 真相边缘(全二册)
A bizarre murder takes place in a residential complex blanketed with surveillance cameras, and the killer mysteriously vanishes on camera. At the request of his friend Yu Dongqing, Xu Huan, a former star detective, agrees to help investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of inexplicable developments make it increasingly convoluted, and Xu Huan himself is drawn into the strange and inscrutable mystery. He gradually discovers that this case is only the tip of the iceberg in a vast conspiracy... A
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Pursuit Across the Country 全境追击
Ice and wind dance together; guns and fire blaze with fury. I, Yan Feng, swear that even if you truly are the Grim Reaper, I’ll pursue you to the ends of the earth!
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Endless Pursuit of the Killer 无限追凶
The ruthless “Lancer” and the devious “criminal mastermind” lead to a mysterious “human observer” lurking behind them. Four young people defend Long'an and take on supercriminals lurking in the dark web! (The bonus chapters for The Homicide Detective have been posted on the official WeChat account.)
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Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探
What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r
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A New Police Officer's First Day: You Caught a Wanted Criminal Right from the Start 新警入职:开局你就抓了个通缉犯
A new story is here! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you'll enjoy it! Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Detective's Mission 刑警使命
Ye Jiu, an orthodox inheritor of the Su Family's Taiji tradition and a former unarmed-combat instructor with a special operations unit, transfers to a local post as a criminal investigator. While staking out a suspect, he is struck by lightning and unexpectedly gains twenty years of memories from a parallel world. From then on, he embarks on an extraordinary career as a detective, cracking major cases, capturing key criminals, and crushing all manner of criminal gangs with iron fists. No one can
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