I Want Mystery Books About Solving Cases and Puzzles. Please, I’m Starving 想看探案解密的书，求求了，孩子饿了

1. 1 恶 The Devil Reversed 恶魔逆位 20/100 Vision视力零点二一Mystery737k WordsCompleted “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 39kReads9.5Score6kShelves

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   These are all books I've read myself. Stylistically, I like the first one the most, but the later ones are also excellent. For a while, I was particularly obsessed with this kind of mystery-solving detective story. "When murder becomes art, the killer is the most arrogant audience." A girl in black chuckles in the interrogation room, her fingertips tracing the bloody crime photograph, her eyes savoring it like an appreciation of a masterpiece. A bizarre murder case × a perfect escape × defying the police—when all the evidence points to her, she overturns everything with a single sentence: "If I wanted to kill him, I would never use such a clumsy and ridiculous method."

2. 2 硬 A Hard Nut to Crack 硬骨头 Beidou Erniang北斗二娘Mystery640k WordsCompleted The new major-crimes squad captain, Lin Cuo, is gorgeous, cool, confident, and bold enough to take on Jiang Yi, the icy demon king of the criminal investigation corps. Everyone waits for her to make a fool of herself, but... Captain Lin keeps sending in good news: the shattered-skull case, the Lolita case, the death of a female livestreamer... Captain Lin is incredible! Jiang Yi is a top criminal investigator, a walking iceberg who solves cases with ruthless speed and dominates the police force. 3.1kReads9.3Score691Shelves
3. 3 心 The Psychological Anatomist 心理解剖者 Bug Baby虫宝宝Mystery549k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication] Genius Forensic Doctor VS Tough-as-Nails Police Captain [Mystery + deduction + sweet romance + high-IQ crimes + serial murders + criminal profiling + suitable for the timid] Original title: The Psychological Anatomist Schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, high-IQ crimes... This is a world overrun by psychopaths. The Cat-Fetus Man case, the Couple Butchers, the Angel of Death... Twisted fantasies of evil always burst into reality alongside violence. A corpse is 95.5kReads9.5Score13.3kShelves

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   A super engaging suspenseful crime-solving drama! Both the male and female leads are incredibly talented. The female lead is autistic but strives to improve and integrate into society. Unlike typical autistic individuals, she's obsessed with studying corpses (she's a forensic pathologist). She takes a liking to the male lead's bones at their first meeting and then works to befriend him, hoping to eventually give him her body. 🤦🤦 The crime-solving plot is also excellent, unfolding beautifully and engagingly. 🍉

4. 4 小 A Little Land of Mountains and Rivers 小山河 Beidou Erniang北斗二娘Mystery937k WordsCompleted When Chi Xia first joins the special investigations team, Luo Xun strongly recommends transferring her elsewhere. The intern is so thin-limbed and wooden, like she can barely keep her eyes open. What makes her suitable for this team? She’d be much better off in Publicity! The thin-limbed intern says nothing, responding to everything with, “Captain Luo, solving the case comes first.” Luo Xun is so frustrated he can barely contain himself. The team is doomed, he thinks. Before long, Captain Luo ge 69.2kReads9.5Score12.3kShelves
5. 5 醒 After Waking Up, I Became the Godmother of the Police Force 醒来后我成了警界祖师奶 Sound Slash音斩Mystery284k WordsCompleted When Jiang Yu woke up, she found herself in the middle of a kidnapping. The police had been locked in an all-night standoff with the kidnappers, and the situation was tense. She freed her hands, brushed the dust off herself, and looked at the bandit she'd tied up from head to toe. “That's it?” Like a kind senior, Lu Lizhi placed a stack of books by leading figures in law enforcement into Jiang Yu's hands. He urged her to study hard and ask que 10.3kReads9.2Score2.4kShelves

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   Short, beautiful and excellent works

6. 6 阴 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves

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   ## *The Underworld Detective*: When Coroner's Skills Meet Modern Forensic Medicine, Uncovering Shocking Cases! Can you believe that a cold corpse can speak? *The Underworld Detective* takes you into a little-known, mysterious world. The protagonist, Yang'er, learned his grandfather's family's secret coroner's skills from a young age: using yellow wine to test for poison, silver needles to probe acupuncture points, and red umbrellas to reveal bones… These seemingly ordinary folk items become key to solving cases in his hands! However, fate plays a cruel trick on him, and he becomes the profession his grandfather least wanted him to pursue—forensic medicine! Over thirty years, he uses his family's skills to solve countless shocking cases that have gripped the nation: bizarre serial murders, horrific dismemberment, and mysterious locked-room deaths… Every case is chilling, and every truth will overturn your understanding! ***The Underworld Detective*, a sincere work that blends suspense, thriller, and mystery, takes you through the collision of traditional coroner's skills and modern forensic medicine, uncovering shocking secrets hidden in the darkness! Are you ready? Step into the world of a detective in the underworld and unveil the truth!

7. 7 重 Reborn: The Tiger-Cubed Police Officer from a Military Family, Changing Fate with Three Shots from the Start 重生：将门虎警，开局三枪改命 Flowers Bloom on Jimu吉木生花Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Yang Xiao returns to 2003, to the day that changed his fate. This time, he decisively pulls the trigger, killing the armed criminal in front of him and embarking on a turbulent career in government. Starting out as a junior officer at a local police station, Yang Xiao uses his memories of his previous life to crack major cases one after another and earn countless honors. In the treacherous world of politics, Yang Xiao holds fast to the justice in his heart and climbs step by step to the heights 48.1kReads9.2Score5.5kShelves

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   [🚨Life or Death Moment! Gunfire Reborn from a Mystery🔥] "Bang!" Yang Xiao, shot in the chest, wakes up under his police uniform! One second he's lying in a pool of blood in New York, the next he hears his colleague yelling, "Gunfight! Backup!" Rebirth? Time travel? The fatal bullet wound becomes a police badge on his chest, bloody memories overlap with the piercing siren... #SuspenseRebirth #HardcoreCopsAndCriminalsWithBulletsLoaded! Can he reverse the cycle of life and death this time? 👉Follow for a thrilling 24 hours! (Image: Shattered police badge/Smoke silhouette)

8. 8 民 Republican-Era Detective Cases 民国探案集 Yao Yi Bei杳一北Modern Romance229k WordsCompleted In 1935, Shen Yun, a wealthy young woman who had returned from studying in Britain, joined forces with a patrol-house detective of extraordinary intelligence and deductive skills, and Zhang Zetuan, a highly skilled forensic doctor. Together, the three solved one bizarre murder case after another in Shanghai. As the country descended into chaos, their bond grew stronger, and they pursued their dreams together... 213Reads6.7Score100Shelves

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   The story of Shen Yun, a wealthy young lady who has returned from studying in England, a police detective, and Zhang Zeduan, a forensic doctor, who team up to solve a series of bizarre murder cases.

9. 9 让 You Asked Me to Solve Cases, So How Did I Become Police Chief? 让你破案，你怎么当上警察局长了？ A Bucket of Paste一桶浆糊Urban2.1M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 10.6kReads8.6Score1kShelves
10. 10 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
11. 11 余 Embers (Also Known as The World Lost Its Guard) 余烬（又名《人间失守》） Mottled Garment斑衣Two Male Leads790k WordsCompleted [Seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums] [Two powerful male leads + Criminal investigation + Mystery + Case-solving + Happy ending] A seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums. The world is a city, and even when its walls crumble, you can still see the light from atop the ruins. Wei Heng: “This world is strange. People only care about when you’ll die; no on 24.8kReads9.6Score4.7kShelves

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    Go watch it, and you'll see no one makes a sound. [Masterpiece of Sparrow Food][Masterpiece of Sparrow Food][Masterpiece of Sparrow Food]

12. 12 命 Murder Case Alert Line 命案警戒线 Ying Zhong应钟Mystery250k WordsCompleted As an ordinary homicide detective, Huo Xiang considers herself hardworking and tireless: digging up dismembered bodies in sewers, going undercover in red-light districts; hunting killers in remote forests, defusing bombs in skyscrapers; battling criminals at lavish banquets, catching fugitives at barbecue stalls. Huo Xiang has just one question: “When will I get to have a proper date with my celebrity boyfriend?” Her celebrity boyfriend, Shi Zuo, says, “My girlfriend is so obsessed with solving 268Reads9.2Score112Shelves
13. 13 凶 Code of the Crime Scene 凶案密码 Wind-Dancing Clouds风舞残云Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted [Mystery + criminal investigation + dark themes + horror + human nature + crime + serial murders + social issues] This collection brings together five books in the Case Code series: Case Code, Echoes of Death, Vested Interests, The Black Corpse Mystery, and Sleepless Murder Island. Mutilated bodies in the city center, prisoners in a cellar, and urban mysteries return as a veteran cop unravels the truth behind the crimes. A classic crime procedural! The city is shrouded in criminal conspiracies, 40.6kReads9.5Score5kShelves
14. 14 炬 Torchlight [Criminal Investigation] 炬火【刑侦】 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery601k WordsCompleted Dozens of high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A detective and a psychologist join forces to solve crimes, uncover the truth, and probe human nature. (Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + strange tales + revenge plots + perfect partners + light horror + suitable for the easily frightened.) This novel is the second installment in Confession, also known as The Truth About Murder. Once again, it follows detective captain Ti An and psychologist Zhao Yao 6.7kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves
15. 15 自 Surrender 自首 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery691k WordsCompleted (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 20.6kReads9.4Score2.9kShelves
16. 16 悬 Always on My Mind 悬悬在念 Liu Nina刘妮娜Mystery433k WordsCompleted (A suspenseful romance) Three years ago, the “9/12 Horrifying Livestream Case” took place in Jincheng. The criminal gang had numerous members. They dressed up the young women they had abducted as “streamers” and forced them to eat rats and endure abuse on camera. If someone offered enough money, they could even buy the women and take them home... The police force’s most in-sync couple: Bu Qingyan, a criminal investigation team captain skilled in analyzing criminal psychology and trace evidence, 135Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    "Suspended Thoughts," a suspenseful and mind-bending mystery feast, awaits you to uncover the truth! Three years ago, the "912 Horror Live Broadcast Case" in Jincheng shocked the nation, turning a young girl into a plaything of a criminal gang. In this dark vortex, a pair of brilliant detectives, Bu Qingyan and Su Nian, join hands to challenge evil! Bu Qingyan, the criminal investigation captain, excels in criminal psychological trace analysis and possesses an exceptionally high IQ; Su Nian, a behavioral analyst, has extraordinary insight. Both are highly intelligent and share a deep mutual respect. Working together seamlessly, they gradually unveil the ugly mask of the criminal gang, rescuing an innocent girl from dire straits. In this battle between justice and evil, Bu Qingyan and Su Nian's feelings for each other deepen. They fight side by side, cooperating sweetly to bring the criminals to justice. The tense and exciting plot will keep you hooked! "Suspended Thoughts" will take you to experience the charm of high-IQ reasoning and witness the power of love and justice! Don't miss it!

17. 17 人 The Human Nature Chamber 人性禁室 A Jing阿竟Mystery573k WordsCompleted So-called human nature... 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These are mostly deductions.

18. 18 心 Crime Psychology: Ten Unsolved Cases 心理罪：十宗悬案 Three Lives, No Hope三生绝Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A woman drowns in her own toilet... A black cat embarks on a quest to claim lives... A hidden evil lurks in a fog-shrouded town... A madman dreams of becoming an immortal... A beloved pet dog kills out of jealousy... 4.9kReads8.9Score785Shelves
19. 19 十 The Ten Deadly Sins 十宗罪 Midnight午夜的零点17k WordsCompleted The Ten Deadly Sins 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 唐 Detective Chinatown: Starting with the Bangkok Murder Case 唐探：从破获曼谷凶杀案开始 A Dream of Yangzhou一觉扬州梦Mystery169k WordsOngoing [Detective Chinatown Fanfic] [Local Protagonist] [No Female Lead] Li Mu is an ordinary student with a keen eye for detail. After arriving in Chinatown, he meets Tang Ren, the "Chinatown Detective," and Qin Feng, the Chinatown detective. Watch Li Mu work his magic in Chinatown. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 狂 The Knockout: The Gao Family Thinks They're Tough? Dare to Take On Tazhai? 狂飙：高家很强？敢和塔寨碰碰吗 Li Qiufeng Ya李秋风呀Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted Reborn into the world of The Knockout, he becomes Uncle Dong of Tazhai and gains a Reputation System. The more famous he becomes, the more celebrity figures from film and TV he is rewarded with! Chen Haonan of Hung Hing, Crow of Tung Sing, Kun... From 2000 to 2001, Uncle Dong needed just one year to make half of Jinghai belong to the Gao family, and the other half to the Lin family of Tazhai! From 2002 to 2006, Uncle Dong vanished for five whole years! No one knew where he had gone! But everyone 1.4kReads5.2Score100Shelves
22. 22 影 Screen Universe: I Joined the Q Organization in The Stories of Bian Shui 影综：在边水往事中加入了Q组织 Kelaosi克劳斯Male-Channel Fanfiction873k WordsCompleted (Morally gray protagonist + multiple women + worlds collide) He somehow ended up in Sanbianpo, the setting of Beyond the Water. It might not be a nice place, but at least he has a System to protect him. A System for helping people. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Guo Limin: “Brother Xiao, give me a hand. I can't handle this.” Tuo: “Lin Xiao, do me a favor and kill Ang Tun.” But who could have guessed that the System's helpful tasks would get stranger and stranger, and the services it off 21Reads7.0Score—Shelves
23. 23 唐 Godfather of Chinatown: Reborn in North America, 1868 唐人街教父：重生北美1868 Zhou Moshan周墨山Historical697k WordsCompleted In the mid-nineteenth century, the grand Taiping Rebellion was declared a failure. Lin Si, the only son of a loyalist, drifted to North America and became a Chinese gold miner. The Hongmen: "Lin Si? That guy may not play by the rules, but we have to admit his arrival completely changed Chinatown and the fate of the Chinese people." The Mafia: "Lin? Good God, he's the last person we want to cross. If you get on his bad side, you might as well wash your neck and wait to die." A representative of t 95Reads6.3Score—Shelves
24. 24 刑 Criminal Investigation: I Can See Crime Records 刑侦：我能看见犯罪记录 Beneath the Fuli Shrine佛狸祠下Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing Cen Lian was a junior-college general education teacher who did just enough to get by, and always thought he would keep coasting through life. Then a cheat ability fell into his lap: every criminal revealed their crimes in front of him. Driven by a simple sense of justice, Cen Lian began matching wits with criminals, both smart and stupid. He became a specially appointed consultant and, alongside a group of like-minded partners, embarked on a career solving criminal cases. 27.5kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
25. 25 唐 Chinatown Detective: I Am the Master Detective 唐人街探案之我是神探 Longjing Cauldron龙井釜Mystery165k WordsCompleted When truth becomes a weapon that crosses dimensions, who is stealing time? Su Chen, a forensic prodigy who has returned from studying abroad, is drawn into a mind-bending crime in Bangkok’s Chinatown. A gilded Ming dynasty Buddha statue vanishes from a locked room. Ice crystals contain traces of a 21st-century nanocoating, while a pocket watch flashes in the surveillance footage, reflecting a glint from Murder on the Orient Express. Stranger still, an “Omniscient System” suddenly loads into his 7Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 谢 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 Yi Ran怡然Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [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 125.4kReads9.6Score17kShelves

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    It's really good. Behind each case is a very touching story. I cried so much.

27. 27 冷 Cold Case Detective Agency 冷案侦探事务所 Zhuang Sheng's Dream庄生迷梦Mystery905k WordsCompleted As the name suggests, the Cold Case Detective Agency investigates cold cases: murder investigations shelved by the official authorities for various reasons. Gu Che, one of the agency’s owners, stands 187 centimeters tall, with long brows, phoenix-shaped eyes, and a slight upward curve to his lips. Beneath his right eye is a tiny vermilion mole. He wears his hair in a buzz cut and is obsessed with Chrome Hearts and Goro’s. A rebel from a family of doctors who have practiced medicine for generatio 250Reads8.4Score101Shelves

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    Very shocking content

28. 28 全 A Global Manhunt: The Prodigy Girl Goes on a Killing Spree 全球追凶，天才少女她杀疯了 Lin Wanbai蔺宛白Mystery764k WordsCompleted Mystery and deduction + crime-solving + System + woman disguised as a man + two powerful leads (1v1) + cold, aloof genius girl (a high-IQ prodigy with an IQ of 288, the most gifted member of China's Mensa Club) vs. rich second-generation criminal investigation captain (not dim-witted, with plenty of money; persistent, perceptive, remarkably intelligent, decisive, sharp, and exceptionally observant. The standout heartthrob of the Nanan police force, he raises the overall attractiveness of the Nan 1.6kReads7.3Score301Shelves
29. 29 你 You’re the Expert Team, So Why Are You Learning Criminal Investigation from Me, a Fugitive? 你专家组，怎么跟我一逃犯学刑侦 Ling Jiu San Yao零九三妖Mystery3.3M WordsOngoing Su Chen, who specialized in unsolved cold cases, transmigrated to a parallel world and was selected for a reality show about escape. He would be the show’s sole fugitive, hunted by a team of top experts selected from within the public security system! The show’s purpose was to showcase the power of the police and show the public just how easy it was to catch someone in modern society. But no one expected Su Chen to infiltrate the public security system from the start. Using his own methods of si 14.7kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves

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    1. It's practically a battle of wits, so exhilarating! Who can understand? Escaping pursuit while solving cases – a true intellectual showdown! 2. There are tons of cases, one after another, incredibly mind-bending and addictive. 3. You absolutely must read this one! You'll see what the difference in intelligence truly is! Both the villains and heroes are incredibly smart; none of them are foolish. 4. These are all extremely vicious cases, but there's a male-male romance, quite explicitly depicted by the author. Those who don't like this can skip it. 5. A clash of thought and logic!

30. 30 让 I Asked You to Teach Art, and You Went and Arrested a Wanted Criminal 让你教美术，你顺手就去抓通缉犯 Sleeping Cat熟睡的猫Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [System + crime-solving + golden finger + no female lead + Conan-like constitution + everyday life + criminal investigation + lots of cases + positive energy + crime buster + forensic artist] Ever heard of an art teacher solving crimes? Jian Wenxing, a freelance art teacher, unexpectedly gains a crime-solving System, and from then on, a rising star is born! He even becomes the crime buster who strikes fear into the hearts of wanted criminals! He hunts down the truth! He paints the skin, the bone 8.1kReads9.1Score975Shelves
31. 31 模 I Simulated Crimes a Hundred Thousand Times and Somehow Became a Top Detective 模拟犯罪十万次，我竟成王牌神探 Chilly Early Autumn初秋微寒Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Crime Investigation + Crime + Invincible + All-Rounder + Hardcore Detective] A killer capable of committing the perfect crime must also be a master detective. Su Ming should have become the perfect criminal, but instead he aced the entrance exam for the criminal investigation team and chose to stand on the front line of the fight against crime. He has pored over tens of thousands of case files and scrutinized hundreds of millions of cases. In his eyes, every crime is riddled with laughably obvi 80.8kReads9.1Score7.6kShelves
32. 32 破 The Art of Solving Cases 破案那些事 Third Watch Night Rain三更夜雨Mystery449k WordsOngoing Nameless bones, a butcher on a rainy night, and the evil in the human heart far surpasses the evil of ghosts... Layers of fog, shadows everywhere. Where is the real culprit hiding? (P.S. This novel has no female lead.) 1.6kReads9.2Score169Shelves
33. 33 一 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 No Joy无喜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 29.8kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves

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