Novels like The First-Rank Detective
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The First-Rank Detective, best match first.
- 1 Chasing Killers in the Dead of Night 暗夜追凶 A bizarre mass death in a luxury villa, with the victims kneeling in worship; a woman’s piercing screams on an unknown phone line; and a suspect identified by the police who has been dead for years. What lies behind one case with two different methods of killing? 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Deep Tracking 深度追踪 A dismemberment case brings old secrets to light, and as the killer goes on a spree, the city’s residents are gripped by fear. You Hemei, a forensic science student, is caught up in the case. Are the markings at the crime scene a coincidence, or is this nightmare happening all over again? Though she has her doubts, she joins the investigation in pursuit of the truth. For a forensic pathologist, a corpse is the most honest witness of all! Tangled romances, one case after another… What truth lies 5Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 3 City Detective System 都市之神探系统 [Urban]+ [Crime Solving]+ [All-Rounder]+ [Light Humor] Chen Rui was taking the train home when an unfamiliar old man gave him a button. Who would have guessed the button came with a System that somehow bound itself to him in a daze? He thought it would help him make a fortune, but it turned out to be a detective System. Chen Rui was in tears. “I'm great at video games, but when it comes to detective work, I'm a total beginner.” … “Mr. Chen, we need you to take this case. I wouldn't trust anyone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The City's Greatest Detective 都市最强侦探 An otherwise useless young man from the bottom of society accidentally gains five supernatural abilities and becomes a top detective. All he wants is to be a wealthy man living under the radar, but after one assignment, he somehow ends up as the neighbor of a beautiful, hugely famous actress... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Testimony of a Burning Lie 谎焰证词 There is no truth in the ashes, only deeper lies. When your best friend dies for you twice, only then do you understand: being alive is the ultimate revenge. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Famous Tang Dynasty Detective 大唐名侦探 In the first year of the Tianshou era, Wu Zetian declared herself emperor and moved the capital to Luoyang. Beneath Luoyang's prosperity, undercurrents were stirring. Du Qun, a student at the Imperial College, accepted a strange commission from the mysterious heiress Xiao You, beginning a twisting, perilous journey to solve a case... 144Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 7 Detective Song Ming 神探宋明 A man is poisoned to death in his own home, yet his cousin, the prime suspect, has an airtight alibi. Song Ming, hailed as a master detective, once again takes on a seemingly impossible crime, determined to expose the chilling plot devised through the peculiar, illogical thinking behind the crime. Warning: This story is extremely brain-bending and grounded in reality, and it lays bare human nature. 136Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 8 Legends of Republic-Era Detective Cases 民国探案传奇 The eccentric doctor Zhang Hao and the brilliant detective Zhang Feng join forces to make waves, unraveling one bizarre case after another. 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Shocking Secret Behind the School Beauty's Death 校花之死背后的惊天秘密 [Crime Investigation] [Crime Solving] [Multiple Cases] [Deduction] [No System] On his first day with the criminal investigation squad, Du Kai gets caught up in the case of his former campus beauty classmate's death. He never expected such a huge secret to be hidden behind her case... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Ultimate Wolf Cop 终极狼警 As Lang Xingtian teetered on the brink of death, he received an ultimate police System from the future. It perfectly fused with the soul of the Wolf King, granting him the wolf’s traits: greed, ferocity, brutality, cunning, and courage. Molded by the ultimate police System and influenced by the Wolf King’s soul, Lang Xingtian was reborn through fire and forged a legend as a wolf cop in the city. 10Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 11 From the Start, I Had 100,000 Detective Skills, and No Crime Could Stay Hidden 开局十万破案技，罪恶无处可藏匿 [Criminal investigations + brisk pacing + System stays in the background + no romance] Twenty years ago, a bloody murder on a rainy night left Qin Feng an orphan. After watching his parents die before his eyes, Qin Feng came to loathe evil and vowed to become a detective so he could catch the real killer with his own hands! In 2012, on his first day in the criminal investigation unit after graduating with honors from the police academy, Qin Feng unexpectedly awakened the People’s Detective Syste 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Crime Solving: The System Makes Me Stronger and Stronger 破案：得到系统的我，不断变强 [Mystery-solving + System + plot] A perfect crime is one that cannot be detected or proven. According to Locard’s exchange principle, anyone who commits a crime will inevitably leave traces in the process. After transmigrating, Zhang Wen obtains a Detective System and grows stronger as he solves cases. He pits his wits against criminals, cracks cold cases, and brings down perfect crimes. He rises to the top of the criminal investigation world and writes his own art of crime-solving. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Returning from Cultivation, I Become a Detective 修仙归来当神探 Xu Liang was a cultivator who failed his tribulation and returned to his youth. But he soon discovered that although this was still Blue Star, everything around him had changed. Instead of attending a civil engineering university, as he had before, he had graduated from a police university and become a proud trainee detective. 116Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 14 The Sixth Kind of Reasoning 第六种推理 Reasoning in the world can broadly be divided into five types: syllogistic deduction, conjunction elimination, chain inference, inductive synthesis, and reductio ad absurdum. The world's great detectives use these five methods for one purpose: to discover WHO committed a case. Yang Yuge is fascinated by all kinds of strange cases, but unlike other detectives, he doesn't care about WHO. He only cares about WHY. To find WHY, Yang Yuge uses a sixth method of reasoning, one distinct from the other f 17Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 15 It All Begins With the Criminal Police 一切从刑警开始 Fang Yun was an IT elite in his previous life. While working overtime, he suffered a sudden heart attack and stroke, and died on the spot, only to transmigrate to a parallel world. In this world, Fang Yun is an elite graduate of the Huaguo Police University. He has just joined the Linshui District Criminal Investigation Brigade as a rookie officer. Watch as he uses his ability to “acquire specific memories from corpses,” together with his exceptional powers of logical deduction, to solve one biz 46Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 16 The Hotheaded Cop: Is Solving Cases Really That Hard? 狂警之破案很难吗？ [Crime-Solving + System + Feel-Good Read + Reborn + Mystery + Deduction] In his previous life, Lei Yaoyang’s cover as an undercover agent was blown, and he died a tragic death in a crocodile pool in the Golden Triangle! Given a new lease on life, Lei Yaoyang discovered that he had been reborn in the body of a timid, insecure rookie police officer. Timidity is a sin. Since you’re dead, I’ll start everything over! 251Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 17 I Told You to Go on a Blind Date, Not Arrest Your Police Chief Father-in-Law 让你去相亲，你把警察岳父给抓了 On his way to propose at a policewoman’s home, he catches a queen of thieves and brings her along as a gift. His future police-chief father-in-law is stunned. At his girlfriend’s home, he finds numerous skeletons sealed inside a clay sculpture. He immediately arrests the suspect, his future police-chief father-in-law. His future father-in-law, the police chief, gives him every kind of obstacle: if he wants to marry his beautiful daughter, he first has to solve the bizarre haunted-house case that 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Baffling Murder Case 诡案迷凶 At half past eleven at night, the crisp wail of sirens echoed through the air as several police cars plowed through the snowstorm and raced along the mountain road. Sitting in the car, Xing Yixuan watched the blizzard batter the window, a hint of impatience on his face. No one would be happy to get caught up in a case on a night when heavy snow had sealed off the mountains. 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 You're a Murder Suspect, So Why Do You Keep Solving Murder Cases? 你个凶杀嫌疑犯，怎么天天破命案 [Hardcore deduction + forensic criminal investigation + must-read masterpiece + no idiot plots + career comes first] What do you mean, the evidence is irrefutable? I really didn’t kill anyone! Lin Ming was once a top detective. After unexpectedly transmigrating to a parallel world, he finds himself in an interrogation room, accused of murder. Finding the crucial evidence and clearing his name becomes his most urgent task. An incorrectly shaped bloodstain leads him to the murder weapon someone tr 4Reads—Score127Shelves
- 20 Unbelievable! I Took Down a Terrorist Hideout While Slacking Off at Work 离谱！上班摸鱼，端了恐怖分子窝 Lin Bufan died suddenly from overwork, then transmigrated to a parallel world and became a lowly security guard at the Roland Scenic Community. Unexpectedly, he awakened the “Lucky Slacking System.” As long as he slacked off during work hours, he could earn Lucky Points. “Spend 100 Lucky Points, and the Host will receive 10 minutes of good luck.” “For real? No way!” Lin Bufan looked at the “Slash the Price” screen on Pinduoduo on his phone and tapped it lightly. “Congratulations! You successfull 339Reads8.2Score105Shelves
- 21 Strange Urban Cases: The Mysterious Bureau 798 都市诡奇案，神秘的798局 In H City, one baffling case after another unfolds in deserted corners, while clouds of mystery close in. Evil is everywhere... Li Xiao, male, thirty years old, current captain of the mysterious 798 Bureau's investigation team in H City. Thin and solitary, a true genius, a graduate student in criminal psychology, and the strongest captain in history. Liu Si, Li Xiao's capable assistant at the 798 Bureau. His motto in life: “I, Liu Si, may have nothing, but I've got more money than I know what to 5Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 22 You Were Supposed to Catch Pickpockets, So Why Did You Catch a Wanted Criminal? 让你去反扒，你顺手抓个通缉犯？ [System] [Power Fantasy] [One Female Lead] [Mystery] After drinking too much, Zhang Chen accidentally transmigrated to a parallel world several years in the past. By chance, he became an auxiliary police officer in Dong City. He also awakened the Famous Police System, and from that day on, Dong City gained a legendary figure. On his first day on the job, the anti-pickpocketing squad took him along on an operation, and he accidentally caught a wanted criminal. The officers who heard the news were 96Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 23 Criminal Police Case Files: Strange and Baffling Crimes 刑警奇案：那些诡异离奇的案件 I'm a police detective, Wei Tie, responsible for investigating and solving all kinds of horrifying, brutal, bizarre, and strange criminal cases. This story contains no political or official corruption, no pornography or crime syndicates, and no ghosts or gods. The cases, characters, and events are entirely fictional! 88Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 24 At the End of the Galaxy, We Fell in Love 星河尽头，我们相爱 (Twenty high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A criminal investigation captain and a genius young woman team up to solve crimes and uncover the darkness and warmth of human nature. Romance + suspense + deduction + psychology + high-IQ perfect crimes + case-by-case investigations) A new consultant lands in the criminal investigation unit, and everyone wonders how long it will take Shen Zhiyan to drive her away. At first, it's: "Who are you? I don't know you, we're not close." Then it becomes: "Wanwan 803Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 25 Crime Solving: From the Start, My Wife Is Accused of Murder 破案：开局老婆被指杀人犯 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Bai An discovers that someone has accused his newlywed wife of murder. Fortunately, he awakens the Case-Solving Lottery System. “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’ve won an exclusive skill for master detectives: Eye of Insight!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’ve won an exclusive skill for police investigators: Intermediate Criminal Investigation Experience!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’ve won a premium meal plan recipe!” “Ding! Congratulations, H —Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 26 When the Fog Lifts: The Mystery of the 307 Ghost Ship’s Appearance 迷雾散尽时，307幽灵船现身之谜 When the fog clears, the mystery of Ghost Ship 307’s appearance —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Terror at the Girls’ School: The Mystery of the 307 Fall 女校惊魂之307跳楼之谜 Terror at the Girls’ School: The Mystery of the 307 Jump —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I'm a Rookie Cop. Surely Solving a Major Case Isn't Asking Too Much? 我，小警察，破个大案不过分吧？ [No System + No golden finger + Crime-solving prodigy + Photographic memory + Mind palace Rubik’s cube] There’s a romance!!! Has the vibe of a Hong Kong crime movie!!! The story branches into multiple plotlines after 100,000 words, and the cases get more complex!!! Female fan: “You’re a punk, you’re a bad boy, but damn, you’re handsome!!!” Station chief: “I knew it. Our little temple can’t hold a great deity like you!!!” Criminal police captain: “You must come from a rich family!!! But there’s a 362Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 29 Rosebone 玫瑰骨 Lu Xiaosuo is a survivor. A survivor suspected of being the killer. Blood on the roses, severed limbs in the rose garden, and a pair of eyes beneath the thorns that will never close She saw the murderer shot dead with her own eyes, yet discovered that someone else might be the real culprit… That man has dragged her into a storm of bloodshed once more. And yet she can’t bring herself to hate him. She says, “Lu Xiaosuo, bloom again. Find your heart among the bloodstained roses.” 21Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 30 Allen's Story: Hyperthymesia 艾伦的故事—超忆症 Alan’s Story: Hyperthymesia 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Reborn in 1999: Solving Major Cold Cases at the City Public Security Bureau 重生99，我在市局破重案积案 A criminal investigation expert from more than twenty years in the future is reborn in 1999 in the body of a young police officer with the same name. Thus begins his journey solving cases in a unique era. 1.5kReads7.6Score171Shelves
- 32 Forensic Detective on the Case 追凶法医 One baffling murder after another; One tangled clue after another; One eerie crime scene after another; He faces the most ruthless killers; He deciphers the language of bones; Amid a swamp of unsolved cases, he painstakingly pieces together the clues and makes the dead speak! 94Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 33 Genius Detective's Deduction: The Whole Nation Is Blowing Up the Trending Charts! 天才推理神探，全国热搜炸了！ [Mystery] + [Criminal Investigations] + [System] + [No Female Lead] + [Conan-Style Bad Luck] + [Genius Detective] Have you ever heard of solving crimes through telepathy? Yang Fan, a café worker, accidentally obtains the Super Cop System and gradually becomes a brilliant detective, cracking one major and bizarre case after another and shocking the entire country! His telepathy lets him detect emotional fragments lingering on evidence from murder cases. It can’t directly identify the killer, but 2.3kReads6.7Score162Shelves
- 34 Shh, Don’t Speak 嘘，别说话 The wedding venue turns into a crime scene. He’s dead! Did she kill him? Yun Shen is a renowned mystery novelist, and the murder at this wedding is exactly like the plot of one of her novels. More murders follow, each one matching a murder in one of her books. It’s as if she’s fallen under a curse. It seems there’s always a pair of eyes watching her from somewhere nearby... 139Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 35 Top-Secret Files: Human Nature 绝密档案：人性 Wherever people live, there is darkness, and wherever there is darkness, there will be light. Though the light may come a little late, it will never let the darkness spread. Cases that seem simple at first reveal nothing but raw human nature and desire. A cold case sealed away for five years appears before Lin Feng once again. Is it mere coincidence, or is some unseen hand driving events forward? Watch Lin Feng painstakingly unravel the clues as a shadowy organization that kills for pleasure 131Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 36 The Exonerator 解罪师 Genius mathematician Lin Mo is drawn into a carefully orchestrated series of murders, and all the evidence points to him. The killer marks the corpses with mathematical symbols, uses a total lunar eclipse to create the perfect alibi, and even turns the truth behind the fire at the “Angel Orphanage” ten years ago into a bloody code of revenge. To prove his innocence, Lin Mo joins forces with police captain Shen Yuqing to investigate. Each corpse is a “puzzle piece,” and every victim was connect —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Major Crimes: The Mystery Behind Massacres and Torture 重案组：灭门、虐杀背后之谜 A campus romance sparks a bloody massacre. What did the killer mean by leaving seven blood-red characters on the wall? A refined psychiatrist repeatedly violates his beautiful patients, while a ruthless serial killer hides profound affection behind his brutal murders. When legal punishment and psychological desire cannot be brought into balance, must human lives be sacrificed to bridge the gap? This world is nothing like a yin-yang fish: things are never simply black and white. 1Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 38 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! 151Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 39 From the Start, I'm Playing Dead in the Morgue, and Only I Can See Ghosts 开局挺尸太平间，只有我能看见鬼 [Crime solving + hacking + urban daily life + comedy + one heroine + everyone stays sharp + slow burn] No horror elements, no horror elements, no horror elements. Important things have to be said three times!!! Synopsis, version one: If you were reading in a library and suddenly found yourself sealed inside a morgue, what would you do? And what if you gained supernatural abilities? Li Hanfeng: "I'm an ordinary, everyday person, yet I do extraordinary things." Synopsis, version two: Reckless yout —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I Brushed Past the Killer and Saw the Crime Scene! 与凶手擦肩，我看到了案发现场！ Zhu Yaqing has a secret she can never tell anyone. Whenever she brushes past a murderer, she sees the crime scene. Because of this, she forms an unbreakable bond with the Criminal Investigation Division of the city’s Public Security Bureau… 628Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 41 After Meeting My Online Date in Person, My Police Detective Boyfriend Arrested Me 网恋奔现后，被刑警男友逮捕了 Ji Wu meets a boyfriend online. He has a deep, resonant voice and is a gentle, considerate “corporate drone.” On the day they agree to meet in person, Ji Wu makes a special effort to look sweet and innocent. But the person waiting for her at the restaurant isn’t the refined, mild-mannered office worker she expected. Instead, it’s a cold-faced terror in a police uniform, radiating an overwhelming presence. Even worse, he’s the strictest criminal investigation team captain at the agency where she’ 18.9kReads8.8Score3.5kShelves
- 42 Evidence Rewind! I Solve Cases at Lightning Speed! 证物回溯！我，破案飞速！ (Reborn + Criminal Investigation + Solving Cases + Deduction + Golden Finger + No Romance) After transmigrating and being reborn, Lin Que wants nothing more than a quiet, low-profile life. But he unexpectedly acquires an Evidence Replay System: simply by touching evidence, he can revisit the crime scene. Lin Que establishes a detective agency and sets out on a path of fighting crime. The word among criminals is: If you don’t want to die, never mess with Lin Que! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 It Wasn’t Him 不是他 Choices: we face many of them over the course of our lives. Have you made the right one every time? Will the road ahead be smooth, or will it lead to ruin? In the storm, some are soaked to the skin, some emerge unscathed, and others lose everything in the whirlpool of the raging current! When the person you trust most, even the person you idolize, is exposed as someone entirely different, what will you choose? Perhaps holding fast to a corner of purity within your heart is what you strive for al 259Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 44 The Court of Causality: Fatal Percentage 因果律庭：致命百分比 I’m Alan Wexler, a former causality investigator and now a down-at-the-heels detective. My daily routine is watching people at the “Court of Causality” argue themselves hoarse over trivial nonsense. For example, when a piece of cheese goes missing, they’ll blame the boss, a robot, a dog, even the constants of the universe! Then I get dragged into Alex’s death case, and all five unlucky nodes insist they’re innocent. Fine, looks like I’ll have to step in again and find the one truly guilty “cause 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Lone Cop 孤警 He is meticulous when solving cases, but has terribly poor social skills in everyday life. He was once called a “pervert” for following a single woman. A procedural crime series in which every protagonist and supporting character is intelligent and capable. The pacing is brisk, with roughly one case every ten chapters. The twists are unexpected, and behind each case are the joys and sorrows of human life and the darkness of human nature. The male lead was born with a disability. He became a poli 795Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 46 Twelve Murder Cases: A Detective’s Pursuit of the Killer 十二凶案薄：刑警追凶录 [Brain-teasing crime investigation, episodic cases, mystery-solving, no System, fast-paced] (crime investigation captain x genius forensic examiner) Crime investigation captain Lin Shen bears the burden of his mother’s unsolved case, using psychological profiling to strip away criminals’ disguises. Genius forensic examiner Su Wan deciphers the body’s secrets on the autopsy table, giving the dead a voice. Technical expert Lu Chuan wields numbers like a blade, cutting off every trace of the crimin 489Reads—Score101Shelves
- 47 The Great Qi Dynasty's First Female Coroner 大齐第一女仵作 Forensic pathologist Ding Yuning died unexpectedly after staying up late to write an autopsy report, when it triggered the toxins in her body. She transmigrated into the body of a mysterious woman in ancient times, also named Ding Yuning. When they first met, he was Zhao Xingren, the top constable in Qingping County, and looked exactly like Zhao Xi, her late boyfriend who had worked in law enforcement. But because she was dressed in black from head to toe, Zhao Xingren mistook her for the culpri 280Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Ma Long Investigates: The Three O'Clock Mystery 马龙探案之三点的迷案 Revision in progress, The format will be changed to one translation per sentence, with one Chinese sentence followed by one English sentence. Extensive English reading material, suitable for readers with a vocabulary of 3,000 words, and written according to the logic of how to say things in English. Contents Volume One: The Three O'Clock Mystery @ Chapter 1 Volume Two: The Missing Corpse @ Chapter 34 Volume Three: The Wrong Murder Case @ Chapter 68 Volume Four: The Right Murder Case A suspens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Frontline Forensic Files 一线法医密档 The sweet and charming forensic doctor Lu Lu has held a grudge against detective Mo Lin ever since a misunderstanding following her brother's accidental death years ago. The two join forces to solve cases, yet an uncrossable emotional divide always remains between them. A corpse is blown out of an abandoned school building; a mysterious doctor has married and lost three wives; an evil man murders his wife and dismembers her. The truth behind it all is waiting for them to uncover... 139Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 50 My Wife Is a Forensic Pathologist 老婆大人是法医 “Zhuang Yan, with a mother like that, you’ll never be happy for the rest of your life!” Her half sister lifted her chin haughtily, cruelly mocking her and cursing her. Zhuang Yan closed her eyes in pain. When she opened them again, a dazzling smile bloomed on her eternally expressionless face, and she seemed like an entirely different person. “Zhuang Ting, would you like me to prove you wrong?” With a seductive air, Zhuang Yan walked up to Xiao Yue, hooked an arm around his neck, and gave him a 175Reads8.7Score—Shelves
