Novels like The Chinatown Case Files
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- 1 Tang Detective: The Nameless Demon Detective 唐探之无名魔探 “I love nothing more than investigating the stories behind cases and bringing them to light.” That’s Kong’s catchphrase. Whenever he solves a case, he writes a diary entry about the story behind it. To him, solving cases isn’t just about processing data, it’s about human nature. In this book, you’ll follow the story of a detective from the Detective Chinatown universe. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Oh No! I've Entered the Detective Chinatown Universe 糟糕！我进入了唐探宇宙 By a twist of fate, the writer Duan Mei enters the world of Detective Chinatown. In this incredible place, she meets the most important friend of her life, the teacher she admires most, and the love of her life. In this fictional world, Duan Mei also truly experiences the goodness and evil, beauty and ugliness, warmth and coldness of human nature. And so begins her journey of growth. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Detective Chinatown: I Outrank Q, Shocking the Detective World! 唐探：排名超过Q，震惊侦探界！ [Feel-Good Read] [One Female Lead] [Mystery and Deduction] [Smart Characters] Tang Hao accidentally transmigrates into the world of Detective Chinatown, where he obtains the Detective System. Under the online alias "Charlotte," he helps solve numerous murder cases across the Dragon Kingdom. Most importantly, he's the nephew of Tang Ren, Chinatown's number-one detective. Tang Hao runs a detective agency here. Business is dismal, though, until another murder takes place in Guangdong... Then one da 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 True Tales: Murder Mystery 真实怪谈剧本杀 (Mystery + suspense + mind games + infinite flow + emotionally driven instances + ensemble cast + no brainless wish fulfillment) The reflection in the mirror raised its hand. Lu Li did not move. Welcome to the Death Game. There is only one rule here: survive. The eight taboos of the Midnight Apartment, the forty-year grudge of the Blood-Red Wedding, the nine survival rules of the Mirror Hospital. Every instance is a meticulously designed death trap, and behind every rule lies a deadly truth. Thr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Missing Tenth Page 消失的第十页 When book editor Su Wen receives a rare encyclopedia left behind by her late father, she discovers that page 10 is missing from every edition. A secret spanning twenty years gradually comes to light... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Detective Chinatown 2 唐人街探案2 The web series Detective Chinatown 2 stars Qiu Ze and Shang Yuxian, is produced and head-written by Chen Sicheng, and directed by Yao Wenyue and Wang Tianwei. It is produced by Beijing iQIYI Science & Technology Co., Ltd., with joint production by Beijing Yitong Legend Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., Wanda Pictures, and Shanghai Chengya Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. It has been streaming exclusively across the web on iQIYI since February 29! Adapted from the web series Detective Ch 310Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Detective Chinatown: The Justice League 唐探，正义联盟 This story picks up after Detective Chinatown 3 and includes the TV series. I haven't added any other characters, since we've been waiting ages for more Detective Chinatown and 1900 came out, so I thought I'd try writing about him first. If you like it, please follow along. I really hope Kiko and Qin Feng get together, and I'll do my best to make that wish come true. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Boat That Ferries the Dead 渡亡之舟 Dense fog seals off the sea, and a battered wooden ship drifts aimlessly. When Ya Heng wakes on the icy deck, he knows he has become a “Ferryman of the Dead.” The first stop is called Happiness Town. Welcome to Happiness Town, where the villagers always wear blissful smiles, as if they have no idea what sorrow is. When Butcher Hu sheds his human skin, when broken bones float up in Chef Zheng’s wine jar, when the “fourteen years” curse from the comic comes true... Only then does Ya Heng understa 1Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 9 You Asked Me to Write a Comedy, So I Wrote Detective Chinatown 让你写搞笑，你写唐人街探案 Li Yuan woke up one day and discovered he'd transmigrated. He was also competing in Huaguo's most prestigious live-streamed film creation contest! Contestants had to create a film based on a theme set by the organizers. The current theme was: [Comedy] While the other contestants were still making dark comedies and forcing in memes, Li Yuan pulled out a film: Detective Chinatown! The judges and audience laughed. A detective story? This is a comedy? But as the story went on, the audience realized 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Promote Chinese Martial Arts in Chinatown, Shocking the World 我在唐人街弘扬国术，震惊全世界 [Urban + Invincible + Passionate + No Female Lead + Traditional Martial Arts + Physiognomy + Gu Arts + Medicine] Xia Huaqiang accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that Xia Country is being jointly suppressed by the entire world. After awakening a System that lets him grow stronger whenever he earns Shock Points, he starts pulling off all kinds of incredible stunts! He showcases Xia Country's traditional culture, teaching people around the world a single word: “Badass! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Detective of Chinatown 唐人街神探 My new work is out! You're welcome to read 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Code of the Shadow Soldiers 阴兵密码 A blood-soaked dossier deliberately erased from history. A deadly hunt for the truth spanning forty years. Li Wu, a veteran, returns to his hometown carrying the mystery of his father's strange death and a rusted five-pointed star cap badge from the People's Liberation Army. The village lies forgotten in the folds of the mountains. What awaits him is no warm homecoming, but a world-shaking secret soaked in blood: a ghost woman in a red gown weeps blood night after night; Nanyang sorcery is used —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Detective Chinatown: My Cousin's Surname Is Zhang 唐人街探案之我的表妹姓张 Transmigration, no romance, Before they get close: Zhang Xiaochun: “Hello, everyone.” Qin Feng: “Old Tang, has, has Xiaochun always been like this?” Tang Ren: “Once you get close to her, you're done for.” After they get close: Zhang Xiaochun: “You want to hit me? Too bad you can't. Hehe.” Qin Feng: “Old Tang, she, she's gone crazy! Do, do something!” Tang Ren: “Don't ask me! Go get someone else! Especially someone who doesn't know her!” 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Detective Chinatown: Starting with the Bangkok Murder Case 唐探：从破获曼谷凶杀案开始 [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
- 15 Chinatown Detective: I Am the Master Detective 唐人街探案之我是神探 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
- 16 Detective Chinatown: I Committed the Perfect Crime at Eight, and That’s Perfectly Reasonable 唐探：我八岁完美犯罪，很合理吧 [Dual male leads] Qin Hao transmigrates into a world of detectives. He becomes an orphan at an orphanage in Tokyo! Luckily, he obtains a detective System! On the day Qin Feng and the others solve a locked-room murder, Qin Hao works through 9,999 bizarre cases at the orphanage! [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have completed your deductions, and your Crime Master ranking has risen to first place!] When Qin Hao’s ID reaches number one, the entire detective world is stunned! Q: Investigate this. F 108Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 17 Detective Chinatown 1900: Fee Yang Gu? Fei Yang Gu! 唐探1900费洋古？废洋骨！ Fei Yanggu of the Niohuru clan, a Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner man of the Qing Empire, is a First-Class Guard serving in the Imperial Household's Auxiliary Office, a First-Class Head Guard in the Cangling, and an attendant in the Imperial Guard. He has been granted the right to wear the yellow jacket of imperial favor. With the Central Plains beset by internal strife and external threats, he leads the top fighters of the imperial palace to American soil to capture the rebels. He is devoted to s 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Am the God of Detective Work Across All Worlds! 我！万界探案之神！ After his soul transmigrates into the body of an abandoned family orphan, he finds himself a junior police officer. When he awakens the Super Crime-Solving System, he decides his first step will be to wipe out his own family! “I’ll make you see that every choice you made was wrong!” He also gains the Myriad Worlds Detective Plot Transmigration System. He solves cases in the real world, then visits detective settings at night: Chinatown, Criminal Minds, and Sherlock Holmes, where he helps solve c 111Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 19 Daisies and a Scalpel 小雏菊与手术刀 Late autumn: why did the conjoined twins suffocate inside the wall? A snowy night: who took the lives of the elderly couple who fell from a building together? On New Year's Eve, as lights glow in homes across the city and families gather, someone lies on the freezing street, their body growing cold... This winter, Hunjiang seems colder than ever. As investigative reporter Fang Jin looks into these cases in pursuit of the truth for the public, she stumbles upon a mysterious organization operating 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Seven-Day Mystery: Countdown to Judgment 七日迷局：审判倒计时 [When death becomes a bargaining chip in solving a mystery, would you wager your life to uncover the truth?] When Lu Chen received the last message from his missing sister, the phone screen was flashing a blood-red countdown: 7:00:00. The moment he stepped into the isolated island’s ancient castle, the iron gate slammed shut. Static crackled from an old radio: “Welcome to the 307th trial. Find the killer, or everyone will be buried here.” In the sealed dining room, seven wax figures represented —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Horsehead Incident 特马头事件 (This book was written in 2022. It’s a completed work of pure fiction, so please don’t take it seriously. Back then, there weren’t any rumors about Epstein or anyone else.) Urban suspense, no romance. A woman’s body is found in a roadside culvert, and the evidence points straight to her neighbor. Was it revenge, or is something else going on? As the investigation deepens, it uncovers a truth so shocking it leaves everyone stunned… 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Last Witness 最后一个目击者 A female corpse with her tongue ripped out, someone buried alive in a coffin, a beautiful heart-eater, an eerie black puppet... Behind every baffling case that seems to leave no clues, a pair of perceptive eyes is always watching. But are you really sure that what you’ve seen is the truth? 150Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 23 The Great Qing County Magistrate's Casebook 大清知县探案录 A 32-year-old career woman returns home to find that everything has changed. For thirty-two years, she worked hard and anxiously tried to meet everyone’s expectations. But had they ever met hers? Unable to face reality, she transmigrates into the world of Notes from the Thatched Abode of Close Observations, becoming a frail, pale-faced scholar. The imperial examination results are being posted, and he has placed third on the list. Appointed by the emperor as a sixth-rank magistrate in Lingzhou T 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Mist Finally Clears 迷雾终散去 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Mystery Case 谜案 A campus romance sparked a bloody massacre. What did the killer mean by leaving seven bloodstained characters on the wall? An urbane psychiatrist repeatedly violates his beautiful patients, while a cold-blooded serial killer conceals deep affection behind his brutal murders. When legal punishment and psychological desire can no longer be brought into balance, must human lives be used to fill the chasm between them? This world is nothing like a yin-yang symbol. It is never simply black and white. 113Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 26 Walker in the Dark 黑夜行者 [Night Walker + No System + No Romance] is a continuation of the first book, "Murder in the Mist", but this is an entirely new storyline! Protagonist: Wang Youyong The story follows Wang Youyong, current deputy chief of the criminal investigation squad, as he pursues a small group of vigilantes led by Ma Wenchao. Five years ago, the vehicle transporting Ma Wenchao, then deputy chief of the criminal investigation squad, to prison was involved in a horrific crash. Against all odds, he survived. Ma 465Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 27 The Rules of Silent Murder 默杀法则 [High-IQ crime + live-streamed trials + fighting violence with violence + social allegory + mind-bending twists] [Reader's Guide] ⚠️ This is “brain surgery without anesthesia,” and a dose of “deadly arsenic wrapped in sugar.” ⚠️ Do-gooders, stay away! This book will challenge your moral boundaries and may even make you want to cast a “kill” vote in the dead of night. ⚠️ The logic is airtight and the twists keep coming. Put down your phone, because “Mo” is watching you. Leng Yun. A disillusioned 5Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 28 A Strange Diary Raises the Question: Who Is Zhou Wei? 一本诡异日记引发，到底谁是周为？ A strange diary sets everything in motion. Who exactly is Zhou Wei? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Floral Dress 碎花裙 Floral Dress —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Pufferfish 河豚 [No brainless plot] + [No protagonist plot armor] + [No ghosts] + [Three male leads] A tightly paced, plot-driven crime-solving story. It all begins with a bizarre murder in the small town of Menghai... A dead man checking into a hotel, an unknown toxin, a mole in the police force, execution-style killings, a secret buried for years... In this case, criminal investigation captain Si Jiannan, case consultant Cheng Tian, and rookie officer Duan Luo untangle the clues and find redemption... Love ha 14Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 31 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. 576Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 32 The Forensic Pathologist's Return 法医归途 (Mostly adapted from real cases. Each case stands alone. No dragging things out, no formulaic plots, no System, no mindless characters, and not a power fantasy. Readers who may be bothered by this, please proceed with caution.) My name is Tang Bei, and I’m a forensic pathologist. Every case is etched in my memory. The Dissolved Body in the Unfinished Building... The Poisoning for Revenge... The Murderous Love Affair and Dismemberment... I don’t know how much longer these stories will continue. B 1.6kReads—Score175Shelves
- 33 Solving a Case from the Start Rewards Me with a Hundred Million 开局破案奖励一个亿 “Ding! Congratulations on solving the serial murder case in Li Family Village. Reward: SSS-rank ability card: X-ray vision!” “Ding! Congratulations on solving the cheating case at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reward: SSS-rank item card: 100 million yuan!” On the surface, I'm an utterly ordinary second-grade elementary school student. In reality, I'm the world's greatest detective, and no truth can escape my deductions! 12Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 34 The Long Night Dawns: Silent Testimony 长夜将明：无声的证词 [Mind-bending mystery | Case-by-case investigations | Hard-core criminal investigations | High-stakes twists | A tender-hearted police team] The long night looms like a mountain, and mist engulfs the city. When every clue points to the person who seems least likely to be guilty, Leng Hanzhou is forced to make the hardest choice, on the fine line between justice and the law. Because some silent testimony has always been hidden in the darkest depths of human nature. Ningzhou, a prosperous economic 817Reads—Score105Shelves
- 35 The Dawn Investigation Unit 黎明探案组 [Brain-teasing cases with a new mystery in each arc + two male leads + fast-paced + ensemble cast] (A criminal investigation captain × a psychological profiler) If you’re here for pure mystery cases, give this one a try ^ω^ “We pursue more than just the killer. We also seek the light that existed before evil twisted it.” Zhou Xuchuan is a cold and decisive criminal investigation captain, skilled at spotting clues in the details of a crime scene. Ji Lin is a brilliant psychological profiler who c 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 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 (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
- 37 The Paranormal Crimes Investigation Bureau 邪案调查科 Have you ever longed to uncover the mysterious truths hidden in the darkness? The Department of Strange Case Investigations takes you deep into the unfathomable abyss of bizarre cases, embarking on a thrilling adventure. The book presents a series of spine-chilling mysteries and uncanny events. Some are terrifying moments the author experienced firsthand, with a very real fear that clings like a bone-deep curse and leaves you shuddering. Others are bizarre tales heard through the grapevine, wher 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Told You, I'm Not the Killer 我说了，我不是凶手 I told you, I’m not the murderer. 1.4kReads—Score149Shelves
- 39 The Journey Through Fuchuan 府川行 (A historical mystery with no special abilities and no transmigration. Every case is solved through logical deduction, and the schemes and power struggles are grounded in real insight.) Lin Wuwei looked at the corpse before him and said, “If this were the only corpse, it would be far too simple!” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 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 213Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Time-Traveling Crime Casebook 超时空罪案事件簿 To save my critically ill girlfriend, I accidentally activated a mission System. Every time I travel to a crime scene, I take on a completely new identity at random. A female corpse case from the Tang dynasty, a locked-room mystery from the Republican era, an AI murder case... I can trade points for wishes. The stranger the case, the greater the reward. I thought I was a crime-solving genius, until the System’s final message appeared: “Your girlfriend’s illness is actually connected to you...” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Special Cases Investigation Team 特殊案件调查队 An eccentric, antisocial special investigations captain; a young master worth billions; a scheming, double-standard-setting all-round forensic expert; a rookie with uncanny intuition; a top sniper who asked to be demoted; and a “sixth member” with no records. Everyone transferred to the Special Investigations Team has a secret they cannot speak of, just as the darkness buried deep beneath the city known as the “Capital of the Nine Heavens” must never come to light. Compared with handling cases b 258Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 44 A Survival Guide to the Blind-Box Life Under Seattle's Bridges 西雅图桥洞盲盒生存指南 Seattle, a steel jungle folded beneath the weight of capital. In hillside mansions, the plutocrats party through the night. Beneath the bridges, nameless bodies are tossed into the dark every day like industrial waste. Desperate for money, North American student Lu Di takes a low-level night-shift gig collecting bodies for the King County Medical Examiner's Office, just to stay alive. While everyone else avoids crime scenes, he sees them as untapped gold mines beyond the reach of the law. With 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Funeral Affairs Master: I Can Solve Cases Too 白事先生：我也会破案 My childhood friend got caught soliciting sex. There’s no problem with me bailing him out, right? But what’s the deal with making a funeral director like me the head of a special investigation team? All I want is to focus on making money, but the appearance of a confession letter completely changed my life, and nearly got me killed (Chapter 164). For personal and professional reasons alike, Chou Wan, I’m going to catch you... This is a traditional detective novel, not a power fantasy. The pacing 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Cold Case Club 悬案俱乐部 A pure mystery and crime-solving novel On the Edge of Truth: Huangfu Cheng's Mystery Cases... Huangfu Cheng is both a detective consultant and the moderator, under the name “Withered Leaf,” of the popular video account “Unsolved Case Club.” He has attracted a large following by sharing analyses of unsolved cases and criminal psychology, while also using the power of the internet to gather case leads. But his life is thrown into turmoil when his older brother disappears. He suspects his brothe 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Di Renjie Investigates: Snake Tracks on a Rainy Night 狄仁杰探案·雨夜蛇踪 Di Renjie Investigates: The Snake’s Trail on a Rainy Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The County Magistrate’s Daily Case Files 女县令的查案日常 No romance Young Tang Shifang passes the imperial exam and secures a post as magistrate of Fengyang County. But after becoming entangled in a power struggle, he is ambushed on his way to take up the post, falls off a cliff, and disappears, presumed dead. To uncover the truth, his younger sister, Tang Shiqi, disguises herself as him and takes up the post of magistrate. While secretly searching for her brother, whose fate and whereabouts are unknown, she solves countless cases, including a couple 124Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 49 The Truth in the Ruins 废墟里的真相 Ganzhou is a city where prosperity and decay intertwine, its secrets hidden in every street and alley, unknown to all. Yu Lin is an ordinary beggar, living a life everyone overlooks and spending his days wandering the city's darkest corners. Yet Yu Lin has extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, often spotting the truth hidden in people's most casual gestures. One cold, snowy night, a bizarre murder takes place in Ganzhou. A man is found dead inside his own wardrobe, wearing a strange 6Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 50 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—Shelves
