Mystery and Detective Stories with Unexpected Killers 悬疑探案，意想不到的凶手

1. 301 冒 Impersonating Zhan Zhao: I Set the Heavens Ablaze in the Great Song 冒充展昭我在大宋点天火 Gu Jinming古金明Mystery90k WordsCompleted A special forces kingpin transmigrates into the role of a substitute Zhan Zhao, facing a dead end from the start. On a snowy night in Bianjing, he is given a choice by Bao Zheng: starve to death as a beggar, or serve as a target and live for three days. He takes up the bloodstained Juque sword and asks just one question: “Is this mountain of slander enough to set the whole place ablaze?” 34Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 302 狄 Detective Dee: Sisters on the Trail of a Killer 狄仁杰之姐妹追凶 Gu Jinming古金明Historical185k WordsCompleted A new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 43Reads—Score113Shelves
3. 303 包 Judge Bao: Zhan Zhao, the Southern Hero 包青天之南侠展召 Gu Jinming古金明Eastern Fantasy137k WordsCompleted For ten years, the jianghu has known the lamps of rainy nights. Southern Hero Zhan Zhao cuts through the world with his sword. But he never knew that the beginning of his legend would be the night he got drunk and rescued a charming young heroine… “I am Ding Yuehua. Please, Great Hero Zhan, save my life!” Zhan Zhao’s head throbbed. “Miss, could you first tell me why thirteen gangs of bandits are after you?” It wasn’t until the day he heard at a teahouse of Judge Bao’s legendary skill at solving 8Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 304 狄 Di Renjie: Blades and Swords in the Azure Clouds 狄仁杰之刀剑青云 Gu Jinming古金明Martial Arts206k WordsCompleted Just after Di Renjie had resumed his position as chancellor, seven officials mysteriously died overnight in Luoyang. After examining the bodies, Wang Yun furrowed his brow. “My lord, they were poisoned with the Western Regions’ ‘Drunken Dream of Life and Death.’ The poison must be activated with inner power.” Di Qingqing pursued the killer late into the night, only to have her veil flicked away by the tip of the enemy’s sword. The black-clad figure chuckled. “Miss Di, where did you learn that sw 4Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 305 青 The Azure Judge’s Record of Cracking Cases 青天破局录 Gu Jinming古金明Male-Channel Fanfiction226k WordsCompleted Eighteen headless corpses of beggars appeared in Bianliang. Bao Zheng was ordered to investigate, but the Beggars’ Guild elders treated him with cold indifference. Zhan Zhao sneaked into the Beggars’ Guild headquarters at night and discovered that every dead beggar had a mysterious star chart tattooed on their back. Gongsun Ce deciphered the chart and found that it pointed to the imperial mausoleum. Deep inside, a skeleton in an imperial dragon robe slowly raised its head, clutching a bloodstain 1Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 306 仁 The Dragon Map Mystery of Emperor Renzong 仁宗侠影之龙图谜案 Gu Jinming古金明Eastern Fantasy114k WordsCompleted His name was Shen Guyun. He had once been the youngest armed guard under Zhan Zhao at the Kaifeng Prefecture in the capital, known as “Jade-Faced Little Whirlwind.” Three years ago, he was falsely accused in a baffling case with no corpse and expelled. Since then, he had wandered the jianghu like a drifting cloud and a wild crane, his whereabouts unknown. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 307 陈 Chen Zhu at Daybreak 陈竹破晓 A Huan Loves Ge La Tiao爱吃格拉条的阿环Mystery562k WordsCompleted A perfect locked-room mystery on a magic-show stage, the remains of an innocent infant in an abandoned brick kiln, a revenge curse from a wedding-dress doll, a string of murders at a resort, a death notice on a takeout box, a sacrificial mystery at a Taoist temple, a bloody livestream… With murders occurring one after another in Nancheng, Lu Xun and Su Wanqing join forces to unravel one mystery after another. They seek the truth amid the depths of human nature and the schemes of criminals, using 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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