Genius Portrait Artist [Crime Investigation]

[Please add my next novel, Hong Kong's Metaphysical Crime Solving, to your collection]

Blurb:

In 1999, Li Shumei graduates from the police academy and joins the criminal investigation team at the Qin Dong City Public Security Bureau as a rookie policewoman.

Criminal investigations are grueling. At her first crime scene, Li Shumei manages to display every possible weakness: she vomits at the sight of a corpse, trips while chasing a suspect, and is even knocked unconscious by a gunshot. Actually unconscious.

An impatient veteran detective rushes straight to the chief's office, hoping the bureau can replace her.

Fortunately, after the chief reassures her, Li Shumei stays on.

Back then, there were few investigative methods and little technology, so many cases went unsolved.

The veteran detective never expected that three days later, Li Shumei would use a single sketch to identify the brutal, elusive murderer.

Within a few months, Li Shumei successfully helps the police solve several major cases and earns a reputation as an expert forensic artist.

At the celebration banquet, a colleague asks her, "Shumei, when did you learn to draw? Your sketch is so lifelike, it's astonishingly accurate!"

Li Shumei: "I just added some of my own deductions to the sketch, like criminal profiling..."

In truth, Li Shumei never imagined she had a supernatural ability for forensic sketching.

From a witness's few words, a blurry figure, a victim's skull, or even the victim's diary...

She can conjure an image of the perpetrator or victim with up to 99% accuracy!!

(The novel is still structured as a series of linked cases, like my completed novel Criminal Investigator's True Colors [Nineties Crime Investigation].)

(Blurb saved on 2023.12.1)

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Hong Kong's Metaphysical Crime Solving [The 1970s]

Lin Wushuang is a powerful immortal cultivator. After a lifetime of killing and scheming, she's thoroughly sick of it all. Hoping to lie flat, she chooses a carefree career for her next life...

Unexpectedly, she transmigrates into the body of a female beggar in Temple Street.

Temple Street in the 1970s is a mess, overrun by gangsters. With no money and people bullying her, she looks at a bowl of shark fin soup that costs one dollar and starts drooling.

What should she do with the mental powers she brought from the world of immortal cultivation?

She decides to start her retirement by eating a bowl of shark fin soup, then sets up a fortune-telling sign on Temple Street: "One fortune a day, ten dollars each."

With no desire to fight anyone and content to earn a little money, Lin Wushuang takes up metaphysical crime solving with a laid-back attitude.

A poor man's daughter has been missing for a long time, and even the police can't find her. Lin Wushuang tosses some stones to tell his fortune, murmurs a few words, points her finger, and says, "Your daughter is..."

The son of Temple Street's local gang boss comes down with a strange illness. Nothing works, and his whole body convulses. Lin Wushuang arrives to "help" and recites a spell: "As the soldiers arrive, the battle forms and marches forward!"

The cure works instantly!

A wealthy heiress rolls her eyes back as though possessed by a demon. Her family has tried every famous doctor and master in Hong Kong, but nobody can cure her. Then one day, the heiress's mother kneels before Lin Wushuang. "Please save my daughter!"

Lin Wushuang never expected that she would not only get to eat the bowl of shark fin soup she'd been dreaming of and solve her problems with food and shelter, but also become famous throughout Hong Kong by solving crimes through metaphysics.

Famous journalists flock to interview her: "Master, do you remember the happiest moment of your life?"

Lin Wushuang replies, "Oh, it was that bowl of shark fin soup."

The journalist asks, "Do you have any regrets?"

Lin Wushuang smiles. "Solving crimes."

(Blurb saved on 2024.3.1)

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