Novels like The Case of the Missing Twelve-Year-Old Girl
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- 1 Crime Scene: A Match Made in Heaven 罪案现场之天仙配 What you see now is not the truth. A bizarre murder: a woman lies dead by the bed with a small knife lodged in her chest, while a man dies mysteriously without a mark on his body. A cultural relic tied to an imperial-green jade pendant is stolen, bringing to light a powerful family’s tangled love and hatred amid a catastrophic bar fire twenty years ago. Is this a cursed love, or hatred repeating itself through the ages? Is it a kind-hearted soul saving others and finding redemption, or a siniste —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Truth Waiting to Be Seen 等待被看见的真相 The truth is waiting to be seen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Scapegoat on the Autopsy Table 解剖台上的替罪羊 The Scapegoat on the Autopsy Table 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Mists Over Guhai 沽海疑云 A film-industry mogul is beaten to death. A movie star is murdered. A thirteen-year-old girl from the Republican era gets caught up in a mysterious case, and the culprit frames her for the crime! Her mother goes to prison to save her, and the girl vows to catch the killer! Who is the man she encounters while sneaking into a haunted house at night? As she follows the clues, why do the shopkeeper and the haunted house’s caretaker die one after another? In a secret room inside the house, who is the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Undercover No More: The Many Faces of a Policewoman Chasing the Light in the Dead of Night 卧底归来：百变女警暗夜追光 Three years ago, undercover agent Su Mo was betrayed at the docks and died at sea. Three years later, she awoke in the body of a police academy graduate she'd never met and became a traffic officer. Su Tang transformed into a quick-changing young policewoman, taking on everything from child abductions and domestic violence to school bullying and cross-border crime. This time, she would no longer be alone. Rose and blade stood side by side, cleaving through the darkness with the sword of justice 408Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 6 From the Start, I Returned to a Crime Scene: Solving Cases Makes Me Stronger 开局穿回凶案现场，破案就变强 Lin Chuan discovers a bizarre newspaper: a missing-person notice appears before anyone has reported the girl missing, and she is wearing a school uniform that will not be issued until the next day. When he opens his eyes again, he is back at a murder scene from 1998. The girl who was supposed to have gone missing is standing at the newspaper office, demanding that they take down her missing-person notice. [Reverse-Time Murder Investigation System activated] Misstep, Swift Step, Guarding Stance, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I'm the Only One Who Receives Death Orders 只有我能接到死亡订单 My name is Chen Mo, and I work as a courier. In the fourth month after I lost my job, I received an order that shouldn't have existed. The recipient was Zhao Guoan, who had died three months earlier. The order required me to deliver a box of heart-rescue pills to a sealed-off, abandoned apartment complex before ten that night. I thought it was just a prank, until I followed the address and actually saved someone who was about to die. From that day on, death orders kept appearing. A girl who'd be 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 My Marriage Contract Has a Spirit of Its Own, and I Rewrite the Fates of Every Woman in the City 婚书有灵，我替全城女子改命 After transmigrating into the role of a contract-copying maid, Jiang Zhaowan discovers that her power lets her see the “price” written into every contract. Her sister is about to be erased from the household registry and declared “dead of illness,” so she must use her pen to overturn this murderous game. Tear up marriage contracts, break deeds of sale, and bring women who were “killed off” back into the light. When twenty-seven skeletons point to the same sinister network, her task is no longer —Reads—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 Plastic Surgery Department (Complete in Two Volumes) 整形科（全二册） Just after plastic surgeon Xiang Jun inherited her late father's private clinic in G Country, a drug lord fleeing the police broke in. Forced to perform plastic surgery on him, Xiang Jun narrowly escaped being silenced and fled back to her homeland. On the way into the city with Song Ling, a young woman she had met at the airport, Xiang Jun was caught in a car crash staged by the drug lord's organization. Song Ling died horribly, while Xiang Jun fled in a panic with the wrong suitcase. In a biza 38Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 11 Subject Number Five 第五号猎物 Touch a dead person’s belongings, and replay the final thirty minutes of their memories. Every time, you gamble with your life. Three years ago, his fiancée died in an “accident.” After replaying a corpse’s memories, he discovered the killer had been by her side all along, three years ago. [You are the fifth target.] The first four are all dead. His mentor has spent thirty years researching mental energy. His fiancée had an exceptionally high concentration of mental energy. A person know —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Bone Evidence Mystery: Captain Lu Is Under Forensic Doctor Su's Thumb Again 骨证谜局：陆队又被苏法医拿捏了 [Crime Investigation, Sweet Romance] [A Powerful Duo] [Face-Slapping, Exposing Scumbags] [Together for Life] Everyone in Jiangcheng knows that Captain Lu of the Criminal Investigation Unit is a notorious ice-cold tyrant. His face could freeze anyone solid, and he can break a suspect with three questions. No one has ever managed to stir his emotions. That is, until Su Wan arrives at the Forensic Center as its new chief forensic pathologist. On her first day, she points at a corpse and says, "The 15.4kReads—Score1.9kShelves
- 13 Secrets Beneath the Roses 蔷薇下的秘密 A shocking dismemberment case sweeps through Meicheng. The victim's adoptive father has vanished without a trace, the mother is on the verge of a breakdown, the older sister is eerily composed, and contradictory testimonies make the case all the more baffling. The discovery of an unidentified male corpse and the disappearance of a genius girl draw even more people into the tangled web. As the investigation deepens, the victim's sister seems to be at the root of it all. What has she been through? 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Winter Is Coming [Criminal Investigation] 凛冬将至【刑侦】 [Bold, spirited policewoman × pure-hearted puppy-like intern] Jiang He joins the criminal investigation team as an intern, and Lin Ran has always treated him like a younger brother. “Little brother, want some candy?” “Little brother, you’re pretty clever.” “Little brother, step back. You might get hurt.” At last, Jiang He can’t take it anymore. “Stop calling me little brother.” Lin Ran curls her lips into an amused smile and looks at him with interest. “Then what should I call you...?” Before sh 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Shadow of Justice 刑影不离 Standalone cases + mystery and deduction Bi Ran, a talented rookie fresh out of police academy, offends He Jing, the “Living Yama” captain of the criminal investigation squad, with his impulsive candor on his very first day reporting for duty. He thinks his career is over, only for He Jing to recruit him as his personal apprentice. As the “old fossil” and the “new generation” clash day and night, the two become partners who can’t stand each other but can’t do without each other. Together, they s 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Echoes of Blood 血字残响 A plain silver band links a bloody, unsolved case spanning twenty-seven years. A family slaughtered on a rainy night, power that reaches the heavens, and a revenge plot that leaves him transformed from victim to prisoner. Fine scratches serve as evidence, skin flakes as proof. Every crime hidden in the darkness will eventually be exposed in the sunlight. The last echoes of blood-written words fade, and justice finally finds its way home. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Eternal Summer (Part One) 永恒夏日（上） Eternal Summer (Part One) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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. 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 After My Entire Family Was Executed, I Joined the Inspector to Solve a Cold Case 满门抄斩后，与巡察从事共探悬案 [Mystery and Investigation | Deduction | Light Political Intrigue | Linked Serial Murders | A Vivid Portrait of Society] Yun Shu, the legitimate son of a great general and once the crown prince's study companion, watched his family suffer a sudden calamity. His father was framed for colluding with the enemy and plotting treason, and the entire clan was sentenced to death. With secret help, he faked his death and escaped, abandoning his identity to drift among the common people. He endures humili —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Death Scenes Quietly Spill into Reality 死亡现场会偷偷飘进现实 When old bloodstains appear on your wall out of nowhere, there's no need to panic. Sites of past murders are drifting into the everyday spaces of ordinary people, quietly overlapping with them. Those enveloped by these overlapping shadows unconsciously reenact the victims' final moments. The paranormal attacks happening on the streets are merely lingering shadows of the dead people's terror. Wen Ye has the special ability to see through distorted space-time and peel away the shadows of murder sc 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Echoes of Time and Space 时空之回响 Echoes Through Time and Space —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Synchronized Playback: The Synchronicity Virus 同步播放之共时性病毒 Simulcast: The Synchronicity Virus —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Eternal Summer (Part Two) 永恒夏日（下） Eternal Summer (Part Two) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Apocalypse: The End Times Arrive 启示录：天启降临 At some point, the villagers of Yuyin Village all noticed something strange. On stormy nights, they would often see their deceased relatives wandering near the village. Believing the place to have bad feng shui, the villagers gradually moved away. Not long afterward, Yuyin Village vanished completely. Years later, a group of tomb raiders found a piece of sheepskin in a strange ancient tomb. Written on it was an account of an ancient ritual called "Apocalypse." Once successfully performed, the ri 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Beyond the Evidence 证据之后 July 19, 1998. Torrential rain. Detective Chen Guodong came out of the archives clutching a freshly photocopied case file. He stopped at the end of the hallway and said something to someone no one could see. A cleaner mopping the floor heard him. Twenty years later, the cleaner was in a vegetative state. Chen Guodong had become a martyr. That case file had become “evidence.” And Chen Mo, the brilliant son who inherited his father's police ID number, still doesn't know that every piece of “ev —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Tales from the Tranquil Heart Teahouse 清心茶馆故事 In certain corners of this city, a saying has made the rounds: “If you’re out of options, if the truth you’re searching for has sunk without a trace, go to the Qingxin Teahouse and find Mr. Zhou.” This is the last stop for the lost, a crossroads of secrets. By day, it welcomes ordinary tea drinkers and offers a taste of life in all its variety. By night, it lights a solitary lamp for those shrouded in darkness. Whether it’s a bizarre disappearance, a business conspiracy, or a long-buried cold ca 1.8kReads8.4Score167Shelves
- 27 The Seventy-First Knife Scar 第七十一道刀痕 The Seventy-First Knife Mark —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Collection of Detective Fiction by Aoyagi Awu: The Risen Tenma Series (4-Book Set) 青崎有吾推理作品集：里染天马系列（全四册） The Mystery of the Gymnasium During a torrential downpour, a murder takes place inside the old gymnasium at Kazenooka High School. The scene is sealed tight, and the table tennis team captain who was there at the time is treated as a suspect. Yuno, a member of the table tennis team, asks the gifted boy Ri Zoran Tenma for help in clearing the captain’s name. But Ri Zoran, hailed as a genius, turns out to be a useless shut-in who lives at school?! How will the campus case and the fates of the seve 2Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 29 Who Was the Witness? 谁是目击者 The Gu family’s recognition banquet in Lanzhou glittered beneath crystal chandeliers. Gu Zhihua, who controlled the hidden side of the Gu family, watched the farce unfold with cold detachment. Su Qingya was eager to cozy up to the powerful, while Tian Qin took the chance to put her down and prove she wasn’t an outsider. Everyone thought it was just an ordinary family-reunion squabble. Until Su Qingya collapsed beside the sofa and Tian Qin fell at the doorway. Every guest in the hall saw it. N 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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—Shelves
- 31 Going Out? 出门？ [Get out and take a walk. It's time to step outside. Maybe the world beyond the door is wider?] Death is the only way out. Resurrection is a deeper cage. They fall from the void into a prison, each bearing fragments of their own lives: the exhaustion and madness of being worked to the bone, shackles woven from money and morality, the self suffocating beneath marriage, the crushing weight of a perfect education, and repression hidden behind a gentle facade. The only remaining lighthouse points to 1Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 32 The Lost Sample 迷失样本 [Mystery and investigations + episodic criminal cases + crime-solving only, no romance + two heroines + increasingly timid Team Leader Zou + a prodigy who keeps growing] The sequel to The Wall of Cold Cases picks up right where the previous book left off. The Criminal Major Case Support Team expands and sets out again, cutting through layers of fog to uncover the truth about human nature. Before his execution, serial killer Lu Zhongchuan left Zou Yun with one parting remark: “If you have time, t 3.3kReads8.9Score523Shelves
- 33 My Sister-in-Law's Lateral Thinking Puzzles Drove Them to Kill 嫂子的海龟汤让他们杀疯了 [Mind-bending puzzles + deduction + horror survival + urban legends + Turtle Soup] Qin Xuehua is a beautiful woman burdened with a blood feud. To find clues to the person who killed her sister, she marries into Turtle Soup Village. The men in the village spend all day thinking about how to make her theirs. Until that day. An indescribable monster takes over the isolated mountain village. The uncanny runs rampant, strange tales abound, and evil flourishes. To survive, the villagers are forced to 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Wind Can't Carry Your Voice to Me 风里听不见你的声音 A young man who sold air conditioners took on an ordinary installation job. The order notes contained just one line: The customer is hearing-impaired. Please contact him by text in advance. Xia Mingbo could have installed the air conditioner and left, just as he had after installing hundreds of others. But he listened a little closer. He realized that the old man who couldn't hear was hiding an incident from five years ago: his daughter, Lin Xinyi, had been ruled by the police to have died by su —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Rule Horror: I Can Reproduce Fatal Injuries Without Limit 规则怪谈：我能无限复写致命伤 [Urban Supernatural] [Rule Horror] [Anomaly Investigation] [Unique Ability] On his twenty-seventh day of unemployment, Liang Nan'ai finally found a company offering a monthly salary of 9,000 yuan and full social insurance and housing fund benefits. The company was on a nonexistent sixth floor. Everyone who failed the selection process was bricked up inside the walls. Liang Nan'ai refused the job, then casually tore the company apart. He can take an injury off a dead person and inflict it on the 7Reads—Score108Shelves
- 36 The Sickly Detective: Why Does Miss Killer Keep Acting on Me? 病弱侦探：凶手小姐她又演我 [Two formidable leads playing each other] [Cat-and-mouse game] After killing someone, she washed her hands and returned to the bar to mix drinks. A sickly detective sat by the counter and claimed to be her "second victim". Half an hour later, the body vanished. The murder could no longer be classified as a murder, and the killer was forced to investigate the detective instead. She was Su Meng, a good girl who had deceived God for ten years and mastered the art of perfect murder in half a day. He 385Reads—Score128Shelves
- 37 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. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I'm a Death-Row Inmate, Not a Detective 我是死刑犯，不是神探 [Full-cast audio drama now available] [Crime Solving + Deduction] [Cases move at a brisk pace] Xu Tian, a top university student, is wrongly imprisoned. Just before his scheduled execution, his sentence is commuted to death with a two-year reprieve. As long as he’s alive, there’s hope. Xu Tian studies criminal investigation techniques, waiting for the day he can leave prison and clear his name. Then, one day, the criminal police team comes to him for help... After solving one strange case after 3.9kReads8.1Score371Shelves
- 39 The Silent Relic 圣物无言 Sullivan is an Irish archaeologist. A graduate of the University College Dublin Department of Archaeology, she could take carbon-14 samples at twelve and spent an entire summer at fifteen in the passageways of Newgrange. She should have been digging at Celtic sites, but an organization called the “Recorders' Guild” recruited her after reading her paper, “Materials and Chronology of Medieval Relics.” The Guild has only one rule: record the truth, and never interfere. She has traveled across Europ 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Blood Redeemer 血赎者 Hardcore and original! "Mystery" "Escape Game" "Infinite Flow" "Deduction" "Thriller" "Supernatural" "Lie Qi" "Fair-Play Mystery" * “Your selfish desires blinded you. You trampled on morality. You deserve to die a hundred times over…” “Compared to dying outright, those unreasonable things may be even more painful…” * After death, those burdened by guilt or resentment receive a numbered tag, with names marked in black or white. The guilty are marked black, and the resentful are marked white. The 2Reads—Score100Shelves
- 41 Criminal Investigation Partners: Special Case Unit 6 重案六组之刑侦之侣 They are criminal investigators, comrades-in-arms, each other's sharpest blade and strongest shield. Through the daily trials of life and death, and their quiet, unspoken understanding, a bond deeper than partnership slowly takes root. When reason clashes with emotion and duty intertwines with private desire, they choose to defend justice together and become each other's one and only home. 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Reborn as a Forensic Doctor: The Real Heiress Takes Down Her Powerful Family and Becomes a Sensation 重生法医：真千金杀疯豪门后爆红 [Two formidable leads + mystery-solving + ensemble of female characters + reborn + episodic mysteries + no System, grounded and logical] The very first second after she was reborn, she was framed for pushing the fake heiress down the stairs. Su Qingyan smiled. In her previous life, she had spent ten years as a chief forensic pathologist, solving 37 cold cases, only to be pushed from the autopsy building by her own family. This time, she neither cried nor argued. She exposed the white lotus's dis 67Reads—Score102Shelves
- 43 The Broken Mirror Murder Case 破镜缉凶 [Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week + Long Main Plot + No Romance + Solving Crimes] On a livestream, a bride in red hangs herself from an ancient locust tree. A million viewers watch as her corpse follows an invisible track and “walks” back to the crime scene. I'm Qin Niu, captain of the criminal investigation team in Changping City. The people I'm up against aren't ghosts, but a group of “crime designers.” They use magnetic levitation to transport corpses, infrasou 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 No Snow at Dawn 黎明没有雪 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Haunted Cellblock: I Am Thailand's Chao Fa 监舍诡事：我是泰国昭法 A strange female resident arrives at a drug rehabilitation center. She comes from a remote town and has never left the country, yet insists she is a Thai Chao Fa, a princess. Dressed in the coarse clothes of a rehab patient, she carries herself with the poise of royalty. In a two-second news clip, she instinctively performs a deep-palace court ritual. She casually reveals long-buried royal secrets, and with a few strokes, sketches the layout of a palace. She can’t remember her ordinary life, yet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Phantom Capsule: The Prison Hut That Appeared Out of Nowhere on a Barren Mountain 诡影胶囊：凭空现世的荒山囚屋 The Phantom Capsule: A Prison House Appears Out of Nowhere in the Barren Mountains 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Sin Fetish I 罪癖I 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官 Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki 9Reads—Score149Shelves
- 49 I’m Just a Deep-Cover Agent, So What If I Know a Little Criminal Psychology? 我一个卧底会亿点犯罪心理怎么了 [Cunning, alluring undercover psychological counselor VS smiling tiger of a detective, a gentleman with a dark heart] Bring our heroes home. Bring criminals to justice. Yu Ningwei volunteered to go undercover to find her parents' remains, but when her informant was exposed, she had no choice but to abort the operation. After changing jobs, she found herself between positions, becoming an intern... a rookie who could do a little bit of everything... Blood-soaked floors, a secret fighting arena, 553Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 50 Clad in Yellow, This Daoist Has Made It 黄袍加身，道爷我成了 My name is Jiang Qing. On the day I was born, the heavens showed strange signs: eighteen thunderclaps split the sky, and snow fell from the midsummer sky in the seventh month. The villagers saw me as a monster and avoided me. When I was ten, darkness filled my heart, and I nearly slaughtered my own family. Just as the blade was about to fall, a Taoist priest intervened and saved me. He was Zhang Hongxuan, the sixty-second Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, revered as a living god among Taoists. H 7Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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