Novels like The Crime-Hunting Trio: An Unsolved Vendetta, a Deadly Gambit
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- 101 Dreams and Shadows of Wushuang 巫霜梦影 Twenty years ago, Zhang Baisui, an adviser in Tangyuan County, swindled the court out of two hundred thousand taels of silver meant for the construction of the Five Elements Pagoda. He joined forces with the bandits of Wuyin Mountain to rob the pagoda funds at the Du Family Inn. After dividing the spoils, they vanished into the martial world. Linghua, the sole survivor of the great pagoda-silver robbery, grew up plagued by nightmares. When she awoke, she could remember only a beautiful landscape 10Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 102 Forensic Examiner: Major Case Dispatch 法医： 重案速递 My name is Chen Dong. Because of my father, I inherited his legacy and became a forensic doctor. When he was alive, he often said, “With Buddha's Wrath Hand, punish the guilty; discern truth from lies, and know right from wrong.” I took his words to heart and used them as a reminder. In my career as a forensic doctor, I have encountered countless shocking murders. To uncover the truth about my father's death, I have no choice but to solve bizarre cases one after another and hunt down killers acr 126Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 103 Criminal Investigation: The Truth About Murder 刑侦：杀人真相 [Mystery + Deduction + Therapist + Case-of-the-Week Mysteries + Serial Killings + High-IQ Crimes + Forensics + Revenge Plot + Bizarre Tales + Light Horror + Suitable for the Easily Frightened] You can skip romance, but you have to read about a case every day. When in love, you take your clothes off one piece at a time. When it's over, you stab one knife at a time. When in love, you stay together forever. When it's over, you hide a corpse in a trunk. When in love, you're stuck together every day. 6.9kReads7.2Score36914d adds
- 104 I Said I'd Collect Scrap, Not Solve Cases This Well 说好的收破烂，结果这么会破案 [Two powerful leads + devoted to each other + the supernatural + solving crimes + special affection + a touch of ensemble cast] A beautiful, formidable antique shop owner vs. a beautiful, tragic, formidable, unhinged CEO Wen Ci is the famously eccentric owner of a shop on Antique Street. She only takes goods from the dead. Jiang Yuhuai is the business world’s living King of Hell: signing contracts with his left hand and handling guns with his right. The two people who should never have crossed p 100Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Psychological Showdown 心理暗战 What is human nature? Gaozi said, “Eating and sex are human nature.” The essence of humanity is morality: what makes us human is mastering our instincts. Human nature is driven by desire: when we lose our essence, we become beasts. “Preserve heavenly principle, extinguish human desire.” “Preserve benevolence and righteousness, extinguish the appetite.” When long years of dark thoughts and spiritual torment wear away at a person, their natural instincts erase their social nature, turning them int 2Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 106 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—14d adds
- 107 The Campus Cloud of Mystery 校园迷云 Do you ever really believe what your eyes show you??? After the college entrance exams, everyone should have been celebrating. Instead, a series of bizarre “suicides” took place at the school. But as the truth was painstakingly pieced together, it became clear that the cause was far from simple. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Female Forensic Pathologist Bai Ling: Hold Your Breath 女法医白灵：屏住呼吸 Realistic, brutal, eerie, and thrilling! Take a firsthand look at crime scenes that push past psychological limits, and see women shine in a challenging profession. Shh... Hold your breath. Never disturb the dead. Are there ghosts in this world? Perhaps a ghost haunts the heart of everyone. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 You Asked Me to Start the Job, So I Took Down a Fraud Den 让你去入职，你把诈骗窝点端了 Su Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a newly hired community police officer. After unexpectedly activating the God-Tier Detective System, he embarks on an unstoppable career of catching criminals. On his way to report for duty: “Hello, 110? There's a scam operation here. Send backup immediately!” The police look at the scam artists inside, all clutching their heads and sobbing. “You call this needing backup?” During an anti-prostitution raid, while his colleagues arrest sex buyers 29Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 110 Every Time I Work the Night Shift, the City's Criminal Police Can't Sleep 我一上夜班，全市刑警就睡不着了 “Chen Che, you’re just a probationary police officer. What gives you the right to commandeer more than a hundred SWAT officers from the major crimes unit?!” As his superior roared at him, Chen Che pointed at the high-purity heroin and ledgers documenting international money laundering scattered across the floor. “If I hadn’t overstepped, you’d all have been blown sky-high by now.” Chen Che had only wanted to coast through life, but he could uncover crimes of staggering scale from the most insign 19.3kReads8.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 111 Assassin: Zero 暗杀者：零 Become an assassin, and you will live forever in the darkness. Erase all emotion: no love or desire, no joy or sorrow. Become a shadow and disappear into the night sky. “Set in a fictional world, an original fantasy. Do not conflate it with reality.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Goddess Detective of Suspended Breath 悬息之女神探 The heroine, Lin Xi, has an exceptionally keen sense of smell. During college, she accidentally helped the police solve a case and was subsequently appointed as a police consultant. Whenever a difficult case arises, she assists with the investigation. But one thing has always weighed on her: the victim in the first case she solved still died, and the killer claimed that she was the one who had killed her. Years later, another case turns out to be connected to that incident... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Blue Line Between Life and Death 蓝色生死线 Blue is the color of the uniform, and the soul of the police. To live is a duty; to die is fate. Along this line between light and darkness, some stand watch, while others sink. He only wants to live, to prove that his faith still exists. —Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 114 Those Things from My Younger Days 我的那些年的那些事儿 A real-estate tycoon is found dead in his private villa. His ex-girlfriend holds ironclad evidence but refuses to speak, because her family has been threatened and made into pawns. Following the clues, the police find that everyone involved had a motive to kill, yet each has a perfect alibi: a builder ruined by a scheme that left his family destitute, a partner framed and burdened with massive debts, and a secretary forced to falsify accounts after someone uncovered her secret. Everyone has some 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 A Father on the Trail of a Killer 追凶父亲 His seven-year-old son was kidnapped and killed for ransom. No trace of the body was ever found. Former financial crimes detective Zhou Qiming went gray overnight, and the faith he'd held for half his life crumbled completely. While sorting through his child's belongings, he found a custom-made chip marked with the signature pattern of He Capital, exposing a shocking conspiracy. As a new case begins, Tang Qiyue, deputy captain of the major crimes unit, investigates and feels a chill run down h 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Urban Crime Buster: Extracting Beast Genes 都市悍警：百兽基因提取 Three years undercover brought loneliness and isolation, partings in life and death, tender affections, and cold-blooded slaughter. After returning to city life, Gao Han awakens the ability to extract animal genes. Starting as an ordinary criminal investigator, he steadily becomes a hard-hitting cop. Fugitive thug: Stay back! I have a gun. Gao Han: I’ll bet the bullets 10.2kReads8.5Score88014d adds
- 117 The First Piece of Evidence 第一罪证 My name is Ye Fan, and ever since I was young, I was determined to become a forensic pathologist. But the year I passed the entrance exam for police academy, a car accident and a severed finger ultimately kept me out of law enforcement. I never imagined that after I was discharged from the hospital, Li Ming, captain of the city criminal investigation brigade, would seek me out and specially appoint me as a consultant on the team. From then on, I experienced countless cases that I will never forg 2.5kReads8.4Score24114d adds
- 118 Case Files 2000: Hunting Killers in Cold Cases 刑档2000:我在旧案里缉凶 Chen Mo, a criminal records clerk, returns to the year 2000 with all the case information stored in his memory. He refuses to watch his mentor get wrongly sent to prison again. So he chooses to live a different life as a new kind of “Chen Mo.” “July 14: A female worker at a cement factory in the southern suburbs is murdered. The killer is her shift supervisor.” “September 3: The kidnapping of a tycoon's only son. A blue feather will appear in the ransom bag.” “December 25: A pileup on Christmas 779Reads8.7Score12514d adds
- 119 Hunting Killers in the Dark 黑夜缉凶 Haisheng City, July 2015. A mysterious person calls the police, claiming to have found the brutally mutilated body of a woman in a residential complex. In just over two months, four cases of women being tortured and murdered in the exact same way have now come to light. What’s baffling is that the killer, usually meticulous and careful to leave no trace, has this time left a fingerprint on the victim. Was it a careless mistake, or is there more to it? Led by newly appointed Criminal Investigatio 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Murderous Passion 惊情谋杀 This book tells the stories of murders driven by all kinds of troubled relationships: family ties, friendship, romance and secret love, true love, and even illicit affairs. The plot is full of twists and turns, with plenty of mysteries to solve! 94Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 National Security Bureau: Rapid Response Unit 国安局：快速反应小组 A hard-hitting crime novel with every kind of case you could want, one case per volume. Ensemble cast + no romance + no emotional subplots + standalone investigations + no idiotic characters. Cases involve murder, smuggling, drugs, undercover operations, counterterrorism, and more. The cases are intricately connected and full of twists. Until the very end, no one knows how the killer committed the crimes. See how the members of the rapid response team match wits with the criminals and ultimately 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Serial Murder Investigation Unit 连环凶案调查组 [Criminal Investigation + Serial Killer + Case-of-the-Week + Psychological Profiling + High-IQ Crimes + Not for the Fainthearted] Every time she dates a man, he dies. All three of Shi Yike's boyfriends have met untimely ends, and the serial murder case remains unsolved. Her family and friends all think she's bad luck. She also knows that a serial killer with a sick obsession with her is lurking nearby. Should she listen to her family and stay single for the rest of her life so no innocent man ge 659Reads—Score10314d adds
- 123 Welcome to the Judge’s Livestream 欢迎来到判官直播间 [Modern Suspense + Folk Legends + A Cast of Villains] The livestreaming "Judge of the Death Register" delivers death sentences to criminals who slipped through the cracks in social news stories, issuing them countdown notices. The police have identified folk illustrator Shi He as a suspect. The series of ancient-style murals Shi He created turns out to match the crime scenes one by one. Did Shi He plan the murders, or did the Judge imitate the murals to commit them? In this trial watched by the 1.6kReads7.1Score29714d adds
- 124 Low-IQ Crime: The Sanjiangkou Mystery Returns 低智商犯罪：三江口迷局再起 Six months after the turmoil at Sanjiangkou subsided, bumbling thieves Fang Chao and Liu Zhi are up to no good again, blundering into one major case after another. The laid-back detective Zhang Yi'ang returns in a time of crisis and joins forces with the police team, navigating a world of wily businessmen and corrupt officials. Four factions maneuver in the shadows as one absurd crime after another erupts, exposing layer upon layer of organized crime and corruption through the comical bustle of 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Fallen from Grace 坠落失格 Psychological suspense | High-IQ battle of wits | The boundary between reality and illusion collapses | Criminal profiling “My name is Chi Xiaochuan. I’m 26 years old, a hyperthymesia patient, and a full-time writer. Years from now, when I write this book, I’ll still remember that rainy night ten years ago. When the creator becomes the one to solve the puzzle, will the words on the page bring salvation, or lead to an even deeper trap? I’m not a profiler. I’m just someone who writes stories. I do 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Eyes of the Deep Abyss 1: Evil Like a Hook 凝渊之眸1：恶如钩 I'm a special-case criminal investigator. I'm also the most ordinary one among thousands upon thousands of criminal investigators. This is a collection of criminal cases, and a record of memories. In this novel, you'll find me, my mentor, and my best friends. Like me, they are all unique, yet utterly ordinary. We once blazed with ambition and confidence. We once pieced together clues and chased criminals through the fog. We also knew sorrow and hesitation. My mentor once told me: We walk the lin 591Reads9.3Score10314d adds
- 127 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 128 The Ghost Hand Murders: Selected Detective Stories of Sun Liaohong 鬼手谜案：孙了红侦探小说精选集 “He climbed out of his grave and strangled the enemy who had framed him with his bare hands!” Sun Liaohong was a bestselling detective novelist during the Republican era. He entered the literary scene in the 1920s and reached the height of his career in the late 1940s. His “The Strange Cases of the Gentleman Thief Lu Ping” series became one of China's best-known detective series, as celebrated as Cheng Xiaoqing's “The Huo Sang Cases.” This collection brings together several of his classic detect 7Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 129 The Mystery of Dingcheng 2 定城迷踪2 [Mind-Bending Mystery + Standalone Stories + Jaw-Dropping Twists] The second installment of "Unraveling the Truth". Behind every massacre, there is always an unseen hand, seemingly trying to expose the ugliest side of human nature. Children turned into pawns in their parents’ power games, victims who take up the butcher’s knife, ghosts wandering on rainy nights, missing human organs... Walking the boundary between day and night, seeing the warmth and coldness of this world, a ray of dawn will al 39.7kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 130 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—14d adds
- 131 Nanjing, 1996: The Nanda Dismemberment Case Is Nearly Solved 南京1996：南大碎尸案快破了 In Nanjing, in January 1996, a female college student was cut into more than 2,000 pieces. Some say the killer was a pervert, others say it was revenge, and still others claim the killer wanted to “become an immortal.” I say none of them are right. “Evil has a source” is the greatest misconception in the world. Open the book, and I’ll guide you step by step toward the truth. 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Urban Legend: Rewinding Time 都市传说：时光回溯 [The earlier chapters lay the groundwork. If that is not to your taste, you can start from Chapter 9, where the first case begins. Thanks for reading!] At the turn of the millennium, three boys make a vow: they will transmigrate through time, return to the past, and change themselves. Twenty years later, several strange cases all point to an organization called Sù. Turning back time and defying fate: is it a blessing or a curse? A string of bizarre murders begins with an urban legend. The met —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Master Crime-Solving, and Get Away With Murder 掌握破案技巧，犯罪无罪 [Completed] A young woman is murdered on a mountain. Her body is intact and her face clearly visible, yet investigators cannot identify her. A week later, a couple who passed by the scene on the night of the murder are arrested. The murder weapon is found in their home, they have a solid alibi, and the chain of evidence leaves no way to escape the law. A series of meticulously planned, seemingly perfect crimes begins to spread from this starting point. Yet the true culprit behind them leaves no 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Frozen North 深寒之地 This novel follows Yang Rui, an adviser to the Qidong City Criminal Police Division, his assistant Zhou Qi, and their police team as they solve cases. There is no System and no sensational or bizarre gimmicks. This is a hard-edged, orthodox mystery with tight logic and professional details that strive to avoid errors. Readers who prefer fast-paced pulp or light novels may want to give it a miss. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 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—14d adds
- 136 The Sin City Case Files 罪城迷案录 In gloomy Liuzhou, a sharp-witted “detective” joins forces with a stubborn, diligent doctor. Together, they unravel the clues and solve baffling cases shrouded in mystery. Their pursuit of the truth is like a dance on the edge of an abyss, each step bringing them closer to the dark force lurking in the shadows, a force feared by all. As sparks from their investigations ignite the darkness buried deep within, a storm between good and evil, powerful enough to shake the city's foundations, is alrea 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 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 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Special Criminal Investigation Unit 特殊刑侦小组 [No System + No golden finger + Hard-hitting deduction + One female lead + Special forces veteran + Ruthless and decisive] A special forces veteran was ambushed by the enemy during a special mission. His teammates were tortured and killed, and he barely survived. From then on, his only purpose was to hunt down the killers and exact revenge, but he didn’t even know who his enemies were. After transferring to the police force as a detective, one baffling case after another came his way: Pairs of m 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 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—14d adds
- 140 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—14d adds
- 141 The Truth Buried by Time 被岁月掩埋的真相 The Truth Buried by Time 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Case Files of a Homicide Detective 缉凶笔记 I’m a college student, and fate has entangled me in one bizarre murder case after another! A woman’s corpse sealed in concrete, an unidentified charred body missing its genitals, a deranged killer who feeds on human brains… One brutal, bloody murder after another, and one appalling mastermind after another! Driven by the fire of justice in my heart, I’m caught up in a series of dangerous, thrilling hunts for the killers… 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 From Police Officer to Chief of Criminal Investigations 从警员到刑侦总队长 Over the course of 21 years, a police officer rises from rank-and-file constable to head of a provincial criminal investigation division. In the 45 years of his life, he takes on one major case after another, advancing from a constable to a member of the criminal investigation team. 66Reads—Score10914d adds
- 144 The Crime Squad Captain’s Mastermind Turns Out to Be a Little Girl 刑警队长的幕后大佬竟是萝莉 The Nanjing Normal University dismemberment case, the twin corpses linked by a foul odor, the Headless Horseman case, and the mysterious death of Liu Ke'er. More than a hundred brutal, baffling cases, with a new case every few chapters. Many are based on real events. The investigative duo of Wang Wangwang (Woof Woof Woof), a righteous criminal investigation captain, and Miao Miaomiao (Meow Meow Meow), a highly intelligent little girl, seeks justice for the dead and offers prayers for the living. 193Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 145 An Xiaoniao Reborn into the Criminal Investigation Division 安小鸟重生进刑侦部 The rating has only just come in, so it will rise later. This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story, and there’s no melodrama. I’ll do every case justice! [An Lingrong + strong female lead + criminal investigation + career-focused + reborn + self-redemption + no romance + female-led story] Transmigrating into the body of an actress who’s hated across the internet, An Lingrong faces an astronomical contract penalty and a flood of ridicule, then turns around and passes the civil service exam. No romance! 59Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 146 The Sealed Evidence 尘封之证 Every silent corpse is a life story violently brought to a close. We are the only ones who can read it. Forensic examiner Chen Mo and detective Lin Tao are partners with very different temperaments but perfect rapport. Day after day, they move between crime scenes and the autopsy table, searching for forgotten truths among cold physical evidence and inscrutable human hearts. The cases they face lie buried beneath layers of time and the fog of human nature. From the city’s poorest neighborhood 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Evidence Puzzle 罪证拼图 On the boundary between crime and justice, evidence is the only light. Chen Yuan, captain of the city’s criminal investigation squad, has spent ten years failing to solve his younger sister’s disappearance. The case has become an unhealed scar in both his career and his life. When an unidentified woman’s body disturbs the quiet of the city moat, a mysterious snowflake tattoo and a bloodstained old cotton shoe draw him and his teammates into a vast criminal network spanning schools, mining distri —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 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 216Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 149 1993: Back on the Police Beat 1993重走警途 [Mind-Bending Mystery + Episodic Stories + Crime + Criminal Investigation + Twists + No Golden Finger] The rating has just come in, and it will rise later “I wanted to be a good person too, but the nights in that era were so dark that I had no choice but to be more ruthless than the criminals.” In 1993, Binjiang County had no surveillance cameras, no DNA technology, and no big data. It was a golden age for crime to flourish unchecked, and the darkest of times for criminal investigators, who co 3.1kReads7.5Score26214d adds
- 150 After the Divorce, the Forensic Expert’s Secret Identities Keep Coming to Light 离婚后，法医大佬狂掉马甲 "Two Powerful Leads + Case-of-the-Week Stories + Ensemble Cast + Brainy Criminal Investigations and Mystery" [Brilliant at everything, but remarkably insensitive to emotions: forensic pathologist Su Jin & the darkly charming, flirtatious movie star Fu Yanli] "Do you have a secret you can't tell anyone? There's a little darkness in all of us, one way or another." Five years after her divorce, forensic pathologist Su Jin accidentally saves her ex-husband Fu Yanli's child while pursuing a criminal 147Reads—Score—14d adds
