Novels like The Knockout: Major Crimes Squad
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- 51 The Chaser 追赶者 “Solving a case is like putting together a puzzle. The hardest and most crucial part is often finding the last one or two pieces.” [Standalone cases + criminal investigation + rigorous deduction + no romance] A massive meteor shower is on its way, and a group of enthusiasts gather at a campsite on the outskirts of the city to watch the stars. In the dead of night, a scream rings out. A man has been stabbed to death. The caller tells the police that they may have killed him. But his habit of usin 95Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 52 The Lost Truth 失落的真相 In response to the Ministry of Public Security’s decision that every murder case must be solved, Tianfeng City establishes a special task force to crack cold cases. In an unprecedented move, it appoints Zhang Yunqing, a Chinese-born criminal psychology expert who studied overseas, as the team leader. On Zhang Yunqing’s first day on the job, something strange happens in Tianfeng City: a phone belonging to the evidence from an unsolved case involving a headless female corpse, eight years ago, sudd 216Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 53 Salvation in the Torrential Rain 暴雨救赎 [No System, no golden finger, no romance, mystery + deduction + main plot + standalone cases] Some people receive WeChat messages from their future selves. Some act in a feel-good web short drama and end up dead at the scene. Some think they can sit back and watch the drama unfold after mouthing off online, unaware that someone is watching them from the shadows... In this world, there are always people who use terrifying methods beyond ordinary understanding to murder their fellow human beings. 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 You Asked Me to Solve Cases as an Intern, and from the Start I Arrest Two Wanted Criminals? 让你实习破案，开局抓俩通缉犯？ After transmigrating, he gets the System on his very first day as an intern! All he has to do is solve cases and capture criminals alive to earn points he can exchange for all kinds of skills, making himself stronger along the way. He hasn't even been here for half an hour, and he's already bagged two wanted criminals... 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Sinheart Master 罪心师 Ever since comic artist Yi Yang received a heart transplant from police captain Zhang Tianlai, he has been plagued by nightmares. To escape them, he has no choice but to search for the truth... One bizarre, bloody, and twisted murder after another sends chills down the spine. Is it human evil, or a warped psyche? The paper effigy murder, the feng shui sorcery case, the deadly gu insect case, the cultist Taoist master case, and the nationally infamous Lanzhou University dismemberment case... A 62Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 56 Zhu Yuanzhang's Iron-Fisted War on Corruption 朱元璋铁腕反腐 Born into a farming family, Zhu Chongba was left without money to bury his parents when famine struck. Zhu Liujiu’s father, a fellow villager, paid for the land and helped build a grave and erect a headstone for them. To survive, Zhu Chongba became a monk. Later, he joined Guo Zixing’s forces, became a soldier, and fought against the Yuan dynasty. Gradually, he rose to become a regional warlord and eventually united the country. In the early Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the fou 1.8kReads7.2Score102Shelves
- 57 You Were Supposed to Take the Arts Exam, So Why Did You End Up in Criminal Investigation? 让你艺考，你考到刑侦去了？ Li Guan has a secret: everyone looks like an old person to him. People say it’s hard to paint skin and harder still to capture the bones beneath. For him, it’s the other way around. The pretty campus belle looks like an old woman, and a strapping young man looks like an old man, making it remarkably easy for him to draw bones and muscles. He thought he would spend his life this way, different from others but otherwise uneventful. Then a young, handsome female classmate showed up, and with her ca 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 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
- 59 Report! My Ghost Is Helping Me Solve Cases 报告！我的幽灵在帮我破案 She can see ghosts. The ghost is her dead mentor. Three years into the job, Lin Qian solves cases with one secret weapon: the ghost of her partner, Shen Ji. Sharp-tongued and picky, he has been dead for three years and is still fretting over her investigative skills. The cases on West Street are getting more and more ridiculous: a stray cat that writes poetry, dentures that tap-dance at midnight, and candied hawthorns that propose using Morse code… With help from the retired seniors of the “Gh 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Surveyor's Mysterious Death 测绘员的死亡谜团 The Surveyor’s Mysterious Death 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 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
- 62 Crime Solving: I Can Pinpoint the Killer, and My Deduction Skills Keep Getting Better 破案：我能锁定凶手，推理就变强 Anning Medical College. Outside the women's dormitory. Bao Jun followed a short-haired girl with a suspicious look, glancing around nervously in case someone suddenly jumped out. If word got out that he'd gone into the women's dorm, his social life would basically be over. “Senior Lu, are you really just asking me to fix your computer?” As they neared the dorm supervisor's office, Bao Jun finally blurted out the question he'd been holding in all the way there. The short-haired senior ahead turne 110Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 63 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
- 64 That Day, I Got a Call from a Classmate Who Had Died 那天，我接到了死去同学的电话 Months after a female classmate died in an accident, Su Mu unexpectedly received a phone call from her. In the midst of his terror, he had no idea this was the beginning of a series of bizarre and horrifying events. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Dandelion House 蒲公英之家 Daughters Who Disappeared: Huang Ziqing, who died in a fire twenty years ago; Song Wanli, who never got to feel her mother's embrace thirty years ago; “A Li,” taken from the hospital at birth, without even knowing her real name; and Ji Mei, who died after treatment for her high fever was delayed... These disappeared daughters, and the people and events surrounding them, set in motion a story of love and hate, fury, resentment, and revenge. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Crime Eradication System: Where Can the Criminals Run? 灭罪系统：罪犯哪里逃？ After his girlfriend steals his biomedical research, Lin Tian saves someone and awakens the Crime Eradication System. Every case he solves earns him a superpower: superhuman memory, strength, speed, and more. Rising up from a community police officer, he cracks countless cases and leaves criminals nowhere to hide. There are all kinds of unimaginable crimes: murders, family massacres, deranged serial killings, supernatural cases, and more. As Lin Tian solves cases, he gradually encounters other p 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Cold Case Reopens 迷案重启 [Criminal Investigation and Deduction] [Unraveling the Clues to Dispel Layer Upon Layer of Mystery] The Rainy-Night Predator Case The Flower Shop Owner’s Lover The Death of a Streamer A Captive in the Cellar… Murder after murder… Deputy Captain Lin Yi leads his team in solving one bizarre case after another. Who could have guessed that in the end, he would uncover the mystery of his own origins! 86Reads7.3Score108Shelves
- 68 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
- 69 A Collection of Mystery and Horror Stories from Hancheng 寒城悬疑恐怖故事集 [Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Dark + Horror + Human Nature + Crime] Not long after joining the criminal investigation team as a trainee officer, Fan Xing gets involved in the investigation of a fall-from-a-building case in Hancheng. The female victim had clearly been tortured before her death. Fan Xing also finds a silver pendant in her mouth: it's the very coming-of-age gift his father meant to give him before disappearing ten years ago. As Fan Xing and the others delve deeper into the ca 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Criminal Investigation 刑侦探案 The veteran detective from the criminal investigation department had barely appeared when he stumbled upon a murder case. A family massacre plunged the entire city into gloom. Why were horrific crimes happening so often in this peaceful city? Where did the darkness in people’s hearts come from? As You Jia found a few clues amid one bloody case after another, he was thrust into a so-called death game. The game... had begun… 56Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 71 Ning City Detectives 宁城刑警 (No System, no transmigration, no wish fulfillment) A modern-day Sherlock Holmes story about an elite team of detectives solving one bizarre case after another in the bustling city of Ningcheng. From busting drug rings in bars to uncovering international telecom scams, from locked-room murders to financial fraud, they face ruthless criminals and criminal masterminds. One mystery leads to another, and every scheme hides a deeper plot, as truth and human nature intertwine. A tightly paced, brain-t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Major Crimes: Keeping Night Watch in the Forensics Lab 重案追凶：我在法医室守夜 The protagonist, Lin Yebai, is the chief forensic pathologist of the Major Crimes Unit at the Jianghai Public Security Bureau. With his exceptional expertise, meticulous reasoning, and keen insight, he leads his team in uncovering the truth behind one seemingly impossible case after another. At the same time, he is investigating the truth behind his father's accidental death ten years ago. 4Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 73 The Autumn Court of the Tang Dynasty 大唐秋官 During the Xianqing era of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, more than forty Daoist priests at Lusong Abbey outside Chang'an were slaughtered overnight. One of them, a priest named Xu Shihang, was brutally scalded alive in a cauldron. The killer left no clues behind, and the case should have remained an unsolved mystery. But Xu Shihang's son was Xu Yougong, one of the ten greatest detectives in history. And so... 386Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 74 Interrogating Corpses, Punishing the Guilty 刑尸问罪 He is assigned to solve a case, but it is so bizarre that he has no choice but to call in an expert. To crack it, he pulls exhausting all-nighters translating documents and even has to pretend to be married to a colleague. 105Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 75 The Truth Out of Order 失序的真相 [Mystery and criminal investigation + serial murders + standalone cases + no official couple, but ship whoever you like + traditional police work, with a few golden fingers] One corpse has two hearts. One corpse has no heart. A serial killer bent on “destroying hearts” has appeared out of nowhere. Kong Mingyue, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Xinmai Branch in Lingjiang, leads her team in a full-scale investigation. But instead of retreating, the killer presses forward, 847Reads8.6Score151Shelves
- 76 Find the Killer, Find the Killer 找呀找呀找凶手 [Mystery and Deduction]+ [No CP]+ [Anthology] A collection of short and medium-length mystery stories, with a focus on classic whodunits. Who can know for certain what the next moment of life will bring, or what fate has in store for you? The protagonist enters unsolved-case games firsthand, taking on various roles and drawing ever closer to death as they search for the truth about human nature hidden behind each case. 353Reads—Score100Shelves
- 77 Murder in the Golden House: My Opponent Is a Bit of a Letdown 金屋藏凶：我的对手不太行 [Alternate Republic of China setting + episodic mystery-solving + happy ending] During the Republic of China era, the body of socialite Xu Ruolan is discovered in a suburban villa. The police station hastily closes the case as an accidental fall. Officer Jiang Shuyi suspects foul play and continues investigating, only to be dismissed without explanation. Just as the truth is about to be buried, a year later, dancer Dong Yujiao moves into the villa to track down a missing treasure. There, she cro 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 From Surviving in the Shadows to Seeking the Truth in the Light 从灰色地带的谋生到阳光下的探寻 Introduction: >I make a living designing perfect alibis for criminals, until a murder takes place in the building across the street. >When the police storm my home, the surveillance footage shows “me” coming and going from the victim’s room repeatedly around the time of the murder. >I recognize the killer’s method as an exact copy of the plan I designed for a client, except the timing has been carefully altered. >During the investigation, a rookie policewoman suddenly points her gun at me. “The —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Crime Solving: My Empathy Lets Me Read Corpses by Touch 破案：我的共情能力能摸尸 This is not one person's legend, but the epic of a team. The formidable and professional Ji Qing, the experienced veteran detective Lao Tan, the rookie Chen Rui... Though their personalities are worlds apart, they form a major crimes unit. They may argue until they're red in the face at crime scenes, but when lives are on the line, they'll take bullets for one another. Faced with taunts from highly intelligent criminals, pressure from their superiors, and the tears of victims' families, they hol —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Death Code on the Shipping Label 快递单上的死亡密码 A shipping label from three years ago is the key piece of evidence in Su Ming’s murder. Following the invisible writing on it, Lin Ye investigates and gets caught up in a deadly struggle between the “Black Fox” and the “Protection Umbrella Alliance.” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 China's Biggest Crime Cases: The Killer Runs Wild, Roaring Like a Tiger and Dragon 中国大案：悍匪杀疯了，虎啸龙吟 In the history of crime in China, three names have struck fear into people's hearts: Bai Baoshan, Jiang Xiao, and Zhang Shihao. The three became sworn brothers, bound by deep loyalty. Each had a unique path through life and a story of his own, and their methods of committing crimes were entirely different. Before they became notorious bandits, their rise was a darkly twisted tale of ambition and power. At first, they were merely nobodies at the bottom of society. Hoping to get ahead, they began 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Back at the Crime Scene 重回凶案现场 Uncover the truth behind murder cases and hear the voices of the dead! Zhou Yi was an ordinary criminal investigator with the Public Security Bureau. While investigating a case involving a supposedly haunted skyscraper, he unexpectedly discovered that, under certain circumstances, he could see the final moments of a victim's life. 43Reads—Score103Shelves
- 83 Solving Cases Is My Specialty 破案，我很有技巧的 [Criminal investigation and deduction + ensemble cast + twists + murder-mystery games become reality + high-IQ battles of wits + the hero is a bit of a background character] Also known as: “I’ve watched 1,000 episodes of Conan, so solving cases should be a piece of cake” Lu Zhaoyao, a seasoned murder-mystery game player, joins the city’s criminal investigation squad after graduating. After five years of working hard to maintain her ice-cold beauty image, she finally becomes deputy captain of Cri 27Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 84 Blood Case Pursuit [On-the-Scene Coverage] 血案追凶【直击现场】 Beneath the dazzling neon lights... Among the weeds in a desolate wasteland... Lives, one after another, full of vitality... Multiple perspectives reveal the hidden stories behind them, stories no one was ever meant to know! 8.6kReads8.4Score579Shelves
- 85 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
- 86 A Drug Enforcement Cop Turned Intern? Solving Cases and Hunting Killers Is a Thrill 缉毒警变实习生？破案追凶爽爆了 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.6kReads6.9Score104Shelves
- 87 Divine Detective System: Cracking One Bizarre Case After Another 神警系统：屡破奇案 [System (weakened) + crime solving] Ye Fan transmigrates to a parallel world and activates the Perfect Criminal System from the start! Every time he evades a case, he gains a new skill! But Ye Fan refuses to do that! He chooses to become a detective instead! After joining the police force, Ye Fan solves a string of cases, including a bizarre serial murder, a corpse dumped in a giant-viewing pose, and the Funeral Home Under a Haze case. He is even promoted ahead of schedule to head of the crimina 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Chasing Cases Across Two Cities: An Intern Forensic Pathologist 双城追案：实习女法医 [Modern suspense + episodic case-solving + slow-burn romance + evenly matched leads] Lu Fan is a gentle, quiet-looking forensic intern, but beneath the surface she is bright, strong-willed, and sincere. She is drawn to the light and embraces the same beliefs and aspirations as her brother. Bai Ge looks scruffy, roguishly handsome, and cheerful to those around him, but inside he is insecure and gloomy. With a histrionic personality, he was once a Chinese detective, but he is also the son of a cri 139Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 89 The Mastermind: CH Major Crimes 幕后真凶之CH重案 The “CH” case from more than twenty years ago left behind countless unanswered questions. Undercover police officer Chu Jianghe vanished, and every last batch of CH compounds disappeared. Fortunately, Ding Qiao, son of Professor Ding Kezhi, who developed “CH” back then, was arrested after fleeing overseas for twenty years. The vital “CH3” compound was also escorted back to China with him. Now, beneath the seemingly calm surface of Haizhou, dark currents are stirring. The death of a superstar inf 288Reads8.0Score129Shelves
- 90 The Root of Sin 心罪源 Greed, desire, hatred, loathing, envy, jealousy... These are all the roots of human crime. The human heart is unfathomable; people can commit crimes over the smallest things. Yi Kai studied criminal psychology, but ended up making a living as a detective. An accidental car crash gave him astonishing powers of observation and perception. A chance encounter led Police Captain Xiang Tiange to recognize his abilities and put him to work. From then on, he embarked on a battle of wits against criminal 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Dreambound Bookshop 缘梦书局 A gifted detective with special abilities teams up with a beautiful agent of extraordinary strength. Using a bookstore as their base, they investigate the dark side of society. One baffling case after another, layer upon layer of domestic and foreign forces lurking in the shadows: whether through perfect teamwork or overwhelming ability, neither corrupt power brokers, rampant criminal gangs, nor traitors within national security can escape the bookstore’s scrutiny. French gangsters, Vietnamese p 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Gray Border 灰色边界 A: Adjudication R: Revenge L: Law Enforcer There are no perfectly just verdicts in this world. Only by walking the line at the edge of the law can one execute true demons. No one wants to walk a tightrope, especially when the abyss below is deep enough to swallow everything. A and L should never move along the same straight line, but only where their paths cross can the sins of the heart be cleansed. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Strange Tales from the Folk 民间吊诡故事 [An ensemble cast] [Multiple protagonists and storylines] [A wild imagination] [Mystery] [Conspiracies] [Open schemes] [Political machinations] Pangu split the earth with his axe. Fuxi and Nuwa established marriage customs. Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor fought for the throne of the gods, only for the battle to end in defeat at Mount Buzhou. After a century of war between gods and demons, the Yellow Emperor abdicated, taking the blame. Humanity gained gods, then lost them, and so a new tale of cr 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Three Years as an Auxiliary Police Officer: I Earn a Full-Time Position by Arresting My Fiancée 辅警三年：转正从缉捕未婚妻开始 [Urban + Urban Fantasy + System] Yuan Yi, an utterly ordinary auxiliary police officer, accidentally obtains the strongest detective System in history. At the scene of a jewelry theft, everyone is at a loss. Yuan Yi is also fretting over not having the 300,000 yuan bride price. Just then… Beep beep beep! A suspect has been spotted five meters ahead! What?! Five meters? Isn’t that my fiancée?! Whether to arrest her isn’t even a question! And so begins the overpowered rise of auxiliary police offi 44Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 95 Mottled Crimes 罪案斑驳 Before one crisis has passed, another arises. A series of murders has struck Harbor City. The killer is ruthless, and several citizens have already been killed. The Special Cases Unit launches a full-scale investigation. All signs point to the same person behind the crimes: Gu Jinghao. Ye Ziyu arrives in the nick of time to help the team pierce the layers of mystery. The battle with Gu Jinghao is about to begin! 361Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 96 True Criminal Investigation Cases 真实刑侦案件 For more than 30 years, Zhou Xianliang, head of the Major Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Yuezhou Public Security Bureau, has remained on the front lines of the fight against crime. He has solved more than 3,000 major, serious, and difficult cases, quietly living by a criminal investigator’s creed: “Speak for the dead and defend the rights of the living.” More than 70 notebooks sit neatly arranged on the shelves in his office. Hand-drawn crime-scene sketches, accounts —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Silent Edge 无声的锋刃 Once the “brain” of the strongest special operations unit, he retired in bitter disappointment after a mission involving a high-level power struggle ended in failure. He became an ordinary police bomb-disposal expert in a major city. He thought he had left the storm behind, but it returned with even greater fury: undercurrents stirred in the city as international spies, financial predators, new forms of crime, and the shadows of his past converged. Forced to take up his “weapons” again, he now f 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Top Forensic Pathologist 一线女法医 Li Jingyan, a forensic expert, is drawn into one dispute after another when her best friend dies unexpectedly. In these cases, she is a person involved, an observer, a listener, and, above all, a seeker of the truth. Her best friend is brutally murdered; a beauty queen accidentally sets a building on fire; a baby is found in a trash can; a highly educated PhD takes her own life at home; a husband and wife who love outdoor adventures are subjected to both mental and physical abuse; and a vile hus 44Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 99 Night Watch Detective 守夜刑警 Everyone on the Criminal Investigation Team says I'm cursed. Someone died in a case my father investigated, my mother died in front of a mirror, and even my partner nearly lost their life. Then I took on the dismemberment case. The victim had been cut into seven pieces, each incision dusted with sandalwood powder. The forensic pathologist said it was the work of a deranged killer. I said it wasn't. Because in the second-floor window at the crime scene, I saw a woman in a red dress. Rain passed s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 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
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