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- 1 I’m Just an Auxiliary Police Officer. You Want Me to Investigate a Case? 我只是个辅警，你让我查案？ A short crime-solving novel with a single male protagonist and a series-of-cases format. There’s nothing but cases to solve! It’s that simple: just pick whichever case you want to read. You don’t have to worry about the plots not connecting. Chapters without titles are part of the main storyline. You can skip them without affecting your enjoyment. 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Seventh Investigation Team 第七探案组 The Seventh Criminal Investigation Unit, led by Captain Wan, specializes in unsolved cases in the city. Each member has a role to play, and together they piece together the truth. No romantic entanglements, no connections to old cases, no workplace drama: they let the evidence speak and tear through the fog to reveal the truth behind each case! 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Killer in the Dark 黑暗中的凶手 [Mystery] + [Deduction] + [No Romance] Li Luan, captain of the criminal investigation squad, is “on the front lines of fighting crime.” Starting with what appears to be an ordinary murder, he gradually uncovers a secret and unsolved case buried thirteen years ago. Everyone involved in that case is murdered one by one, until the culprit behind it all turns out to be the person closest to him! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Shadow Hunter 阴影狩猎者 When a blood-red smiling face becomes the city’s symbol of judgment, a mysterious organization known as the “Revenge Angels” arrives in secret. Taking vigilante justice as their weapon, they punish criminals who escaped the law, unleashing a bloody storm of violence for violence in Jiangcheng. While investigating the organization, detective Han Chen discovers that every clue points to Sun Haoran, a business magnate who always stands in the spotlight yet remains perfectly concealed in the shadow —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Criminal Investigation Squad Three 刑侦三小队 After graduating from police academy, Jiang Muyan is assigned to the city bureau’s Third Criminal Investigation Team. There she meets her good friend Jia Ranran, team captain Chen Feng, and fellow officers Li Ming and Zhang Yi. Together, the five of them work hard to solve one case after another, exploring the many facets of human nature through cases involving traffic, women’s self-defense, historical warnings, human selfishness, school violence, and more. 699Reads—Score101Shelves
- 6 Solve Cases with Old Donkey: Everyone’s a Suspect 跟着老驴来探案，人人都是嫌疑犯 Are murderers always utterly evil? Is what you see and hear really the truth? Join Old Lu on a case, where everyone is a suspect. The known facts: the victim is dead. The victim is either male or female. The killer is either someone the victim knew or a stranger. The victim and the killer are either locals or outsiders. The woven bags and wheeled suitcases contain either people or pieces of people. Under the great memory-recovery technique, no one can keep from confessing their crimes. 5.5kReads—Score250Shelves
- 7 Are Humans Born Good? 人之初，性本善？ This book isn't all about dismemberment and body mutilation. It also features plenty of murder cases, many of which took place in the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, with few surveillance cameras and DNA technology still in its infancy, it was all too easy for killers to hide. This book is based on real cases. If you're interested, leave a comment in the reviews. And, as always, please vote for the book. Haha. 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Silent Boy 沉默的男孩 (The second installment of Beneath the Deep, but it stands alone and is complete. Only a very small number of scenes touch on the previous story, and they won't affect your enjoyment, so read without worry.) (A social mystery focused on human nature, ethics, deduction, and solving crimes. Virtually no romance, and not a power fantasy.) In a remote mountain village, a horrifying family massacre erupts in the middle of the night. A raging fire claims several lives. The investigation points to a bo 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Age of Ashes: We Plant Sunflowers in Shell Casings 灰烬纪元：我们在弹壳中种向日葵 [Apocalypse] [Superpowers] [No Female Lead] [Deductive Reasoning] [Plot Twists] [No System] [Traditional Criminal Investigation] [Crime Solving] Zheng Xin unexpectedly arrives on Earth more than a hundred years in the future. Why is he sharing a body with someone else? The Apocalypse? Radiation? He’s swept into a murder case from the start! With no other choice, he has to work with the body’s original owner to solve one mystery after another. But then he discovers that some invisible hand is dri 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 A Criminal Investigation Expert Becomes a Strategist in Another World 刑侦专家到异世谋臣 Lin Wei, a modern criminal investigation expert specializing in forensic medicine, criminal psychology, logical deduction, trace evidence analysis, and basic chemistry and physics, died in the line of duty at age 30 in a laboratory accident. Her soul entered the body of Su Wanqing, a concubine-born daughter of the Su family who had drowned. Tormented by her stepmother and bullied by her sisters, Su Wanqing used her investigative skills to overcome them one by one. By chance, she displayed her ta —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Testimony in the Cracks of Old Things 旧物缝隙里证词 [Mystery] [Crime Solving] [Imaginative Premise] [Deduction] Qiao Yue, a restorer of antiques, keeps a low profile while running an unmarked restoration shop called Buyuzhai on an old street. Her father mysteriously vanished years ago, leaving no trace of life or death. Everyone was convinced he had died, and Qiao Yue lived with that belief for a long time. She inherited her father's gift: by touching an old object, she can see fragments of memories sealed within it. But the gift also brings ment —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Sleeping Xiao Wulang 沉睡的肖悟朗 The Sleeping Xiao Wulang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 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—Shelves
- 14 Between the Truths 真相之间 [The Most Realistic Hard-Core Crime Investigation] A theatrical edition, this is a documentary-style crime-solving novel. It has no flashy prose, and the cases, protagonist, villains, and supporting characters are all based on real-life counterparts. With crime-solving methods grounded in reality, step-by-step plotting, and conflicts between characters, the story gradually moves toward the truth. An accidental suicide draws Yuan Muye and the other members of the criminal investigation brigade i 4Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 15 The Intruder's Mystery 闯入者的谜局 A place that appeared out of nowhere... Or perhaps it wasn't the place that appeared out of nowhere, but you. Zhang Tian suddenly jolted in surprise and found himself inside a decaying house with six other people. What on earth was going on here? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Major Crime Tracker 重案追踪 This book compiles some of the most shocking, suspenseful, and complex real criminal cases in China in recent years. Presented as documentary-style fiction, it probes the motives behind the crimes, vividly recreates how they unfolded, and offers an in-depth examination of the criminals' psychology, piecing together the full truth behind each baffling and complicated case. As a model record of crime, this book offers an authoritative reference for the study of criminal behavior. —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 17 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. 6.9kReads7.2Score369Shelves
- 18 Reborn in 1998: A Master Forensic Pathologist Slaughters the Novice Village 重生98：满级法医屠新手村 (The rating just came in, so it’ll rise later.) Corpses boiling in the rain, strangulation by a red dress, bones sealed in concrete… Faced with primitive crime-solving methods, he uses trace evidence collection, gait analysis, and criminal profiling to utterly outclass every criminal mastermind and their protectors! A max-level expert enters the fray for real, delivering a brutal, one-sided takedown of every high-IQ psychopath and criminal protector in the barren landscape of 1990s forensics! “P 2.3kReads7.4Score147Shelves
- 19 Shh, Don’t Lie to Me 嘘，别对我说谎 What kind of sparks could fly between a wealthy young woman's counselor and a rugged homicide detective? The “Black Swan,” who should have been dancing gracefully, died onstage in full view of the crowd. Cheng Yuanyuan hadn't even started her job yet, but she was forced to report to work early. This is a web woven by malice. Our task is to hack through the thorns. Cheesy pickup-line skit: “Captain Cai, I'm serious. You look a little like someone I know.” “...Who?” “My husband.” 349Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 20 Ranye [Crime Investigation] 染野【刑侦】 People say evil is born from darkness. But what about beneath the blazing sun? Qin Ye, they say you’re the strongest and wildest detective. I’ve come carrying a blood feud. Do you know that? Mu Ran, they say you’re the coldest and most brilliant forensic doctor. I came for you. Do you know that? They may be working together to solve cases, but everyone can see that Qin Ye is trying to get Mu Ran’s attention. What they don’t know is that the people involved know best! (Here comes a male and femal 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Love and Cases: My Boss Has Been Plotting to Win Me Over 谈情说案：上司他对我蓄谋已久 Three cases involving kidnapping, murder, and corpse destruction leave the criminal investigation bureau at a loss. Psychologist Ruan Qingwu is attacked on her way home one night, and the next day, her mother is framed and sent to prison. To raise money to save her mother, she hastily marries a stranger, but her mother dies by suicide in the detention center. Determined to uncover the truth, she persuades a criminal investig 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Five Deaths and a Transmigration! I Became the God of Deduction 五重死亡穿越！我成了推理之神 Follow this book on a remarkable journey of deduction and mystery-solving. This is a new-style, orthodox mystery with airtight logic and intricately connected clues. It contains no supernatural elements. After an accident, scientist Rong Yao becomes a deductive genius. Using a strange time-travel machine, he transmigrates five times to solve all kinds of bizarre cases, gradually uncovering the truth about another world hidden beneath the surface, where undercurrents are constantly swirling. Alon —Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 23 Waiting for the Case 等案 Mystery Romance + Comedy + Crime Solving The beginning is slow, with a school-life secret-crush storyline. Later, it shifts to mystery and crime solving, so don't give up because of the early chapters. You can jump straight to the cases if you like~ They had secretly loved each other since middle school, all the way through high school graduation. Time and again, they were just one step away from getting together, but for one reason or another, they stopped there. Only later did they realize how 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 An Old Case from Ten Years Ago Made Me a Regular at the Police Station 十年旧案，我成警局常客 [Not a power fantasy + criminal investigation and suspense + deduction + split personality + redemption + high-IQ mind games] A courier with his arm severed, a corpse hidden inside a statue, murders involving gold: behind the string of cases lies the truth about a decade-old crime. Psychological counselor Liu Nian is caught up in the case and crosses paths with criminal investigator Jiang Sinian, who carries secrets of his own. Beneath her gentle exterior, a cold and ruthless “hunter” lives in h 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Twin Blades Shatter the Darkness 双锋破暗 #SerialMurders #HighIQCrime #MutualSalvation #PerfectCrime #BattleBetweenGoodAndEvil #UrbanCrimeSolving (Some cases draw inspiration from real life) Do not imitate anything in this book in real life.※ Criminal police officer Lu Zheng and armed police officer Su Yan, two formidable partners bound by life and death since high school, stand shoulder to shoulder through a series of bizarre murders. In the skinning case, dismembered remains are hidden in a trash can in a busy district. Beside the cha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Oh No, I’ve Become the Scapegoat? 坏了，我竟然成了替罪羊？ [Romantic Suspense + Wild Crime-Drama Premise + Hardboiled Case-Solving + Two Male Leads + One Female Lead + Supernatural Horror + Surreal + Uncanny + No System + Lighthearted Humor] Former police officer Gu Yu became a scapegoat after an incident. To uncover the truth behind the frame-up, he lost his longtime friend to a sacrifice and was forced to leave the force. Three years after going into hiding, his friend's younger sister shows up at his door, and a series of bizarre cases resurfaces... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Disappeared on July 5 消失在7月5日 Disappeared on July 5 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 When an Honest Man Picks Up a Knife, You Won't Have Time to Kneel 当老实人拿起刀，你来不及跪下 My new work is out! You can 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! 11Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 29 Call Me the Crime Buster of the 1980s 请叫我八零年代罪犯克星 This novel has no CP. If you want to read about the protagonist’s love life, you won’t find it here. The only “romance” might be the horrifying kind between a killer and a victim. 😱 (Just to be clear, there’s no romance! No idea why the tags say mystery romance. It wasn’t me!) This is a story about someone who’s not exactly law-abiding, yet manages to thrive in the police force. Luo Ying: I want to have a blast! Author: No, no. That’d be too easy, and you’d look brainless. Luo Ying: Then I want 6.2kReads8.2Score710Shelves
- 30 Ghost Stories Galore 7 鬼话连篇七 Mystery + Urban Legends College student Lin Xiaoxia moves into an old apartment building. At midnight, a sinister phone rings, and an eerie woman's voice warns her from the other end. Blood-red words also appear in the mirror: "Welcome home." Horror follows her everywhere, and she discovers that Aunt Li, who lives in the apartment building, is her mother! By a twist of fate, Xiaoxia, an inexperienced newcomer, joins the Paranormal Affairs Bureau. As time passes, her spirit sight evolves into the —Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 31 Has My Girlfriend Been Kidnapped? 我女朋友被绑架了吗？ First it was kidney-harvesting gangs in Myanmar, now there’s a dismemberment case in Thailand. Lin Xiaoyan, a female influencer, is kidnapped and held for ransom while traveling in Thailand. Who abducted her? Her boyfriend, Li Mingbo, is frantic with worry and decides to go to T Country himself to find the truth, gradually uncovering a vast conspiracy hidden in the shadows. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Judging Bloodlines in the Name of Justice 以正义之名审判血脉 Mystery and crime + dark urban drama + My Father Is the Mastermind A prosecutor is forced to call a criminal his father, but vows to bury his family with his own hands! An ordinary fishing boat murder draws Lin Feng, the youngest prosecutor in Binhai City, into an unfathomable darkness. The clues on the victim point to the Zhao Group, a black-money empire that controls the entire city, and bring to light the unsolved mystery of his father's bizarre death ten years ago. As Lin Feng investigates, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Oddball Consultant: Echoes from Ten Years Ago 怪胎顾问：十年前的回声 [Crime investigation and suspense + superhuman sound perception + nested cases + two equally capable leads + forced partners + healing] He is an eccentric consultant, cold and withdrawn. After an accident, he develops hyperthymesia and severe tinnitus, but can accurately profile suspects' minds through sound. She is a highly intuitive, action-oriented police detective, a skilled fighter with a decisive personality. The two first work together on the Ghost Radio case, then are forced to team up. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 The Law of Disorder 无序之法 Forensic pathologist Lu Guangnian can see a dead person’s final memories by touching their body. But in a case involving a fatal fall from a great height, he sees a police officer with a silhouette identical to his own in the victim’s last moments. As he searches for the real culprit, he is forced into a dangerous maze where he must prove his own innocence. Each time he touches a corpse, he risks being drawn deeper into a mystery surrounding his identity and the dark workings of the system. Whic —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Someone Calls to You in the Dead of Night. Don't Look Back! 深夜有人叫你，莫回头！ Terrifying incidents from the founding of the nation to the present. If you're having trouble sleeping at night, take a look. You'll sleep even less afterward. If you're lonely, take a look, and you'll start thinking there's someone in the bathroom, someone in the kitchen, someone under the bed... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Criminal Investigation: Chasing the Shadow of Crime, Murder in Verse 刑侦：罪影追凶，诗歌谋杀 A crime novel combining criminal investigation, suspense, and psychological mind games. A series of “poetry murders” takes place in Donghai City, with cryptic lines of verse left at every scene. While pursuing the killer, criminal profiler Lin Zhiyuan discovers that the cases are closely connected to an unsolved campus-fall case from twenty years ago. The killer seems to know both the police's methods and Lin's own past. Before the truth can be uncovered, suspicion begins to swirl within the for 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Knockout: Major Crimes Squad 狂飙：重案中队 [Criminal investigations, case-solving, manhunts, and the daily life of detectives, with no supernatural elements] An Zhen, a detective with the Criminal Investigation Corps, is parachuted in as an instructor for the Major Crimes Squad. He has a superhuman memory possessed by only a handful of people in the entire world. In the squad's daily work, he cracks drug cases, hunts down criminals, and takes on criminal gangs, solving one case after another while doggedly uncovering the truth behind mys 595Reads—Score110Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 Double-Faced Killer: White and Night 双面缉凶：白与夜 [Dual Personality] [Criminal Psychology] [Hardcore Deduction] [Episodic Cases] [No System] A string of suicides among schoolgirls, an accident on a stage before a crowd of thousands, a headless corpse discovered on a train... The whole city is gripped by panic, and unsolved cases keep piling up. He deduces the truth with a clear mind and subdues criminals with a touch of madness. When light and darkness dwell within the same person, even the most perfect crime will eventually be exposed. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Candlelight in the Night 黑夜里的烛光 An aspiring police officer fresh out of the police academy is assigned to a grassroots unit. A baffling murder case changes Shi Yi's life forever. The sun sets, and night falls. Beneath its cover, countless human desires slowly take root and bloom. One murder after another, corpse after corpse, evidence hidden in the smallest of details, and the helpless cries of victims' families: all of it drives this newly graduated officer to grow. If criminals' desires are the endless night, then the countl 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Facial Recognition Failed 人脸识别失败 Lin Xiao arrived at the village entrance late at night. The streetlights with facial recognition were broken, and in the darkness, she felt someone watching her. When she got home, she found her father’s dog, Heizi, dead at the door. There were marks around its neck, and its death had been disguised as illness. The local police station said her father had last appeared on the surveillance cameras on the back hill, then had “vanished into thin air.” 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Major Crimes Unit's Secret Files 重案组的秘密档案 The provincial public security department establishes a special major-crimes unit to tackle serious and cold cases. Its five members have wildly different personalities and are always trading barbs. They face difficult cases such as the kidnapping of a young woman and a string of murders, with tangled clues and danger at every turn. Using their professional skills and teamwork, the five crack each case, with no melodramatic romance subplot. The criminal investigation captain solves cases like a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Lame Cop 瘸警 The police station chief takes one bite and identifies a steamed bun containing human remains, and a major case suddenly erupts. Veteran detective Yi Dongfang was left disabled by an old case, and now he solves crimes with one leg. Rookie Yuan Xiaomin has just joined the police force. He becomes Yi Dongfang's apprentice, and the two investigate crimes together, facing the darkest sides of humanity. The story opens with a shocking case involving human remains found in a steamed bun shop, followed 95.3kReads8.6Score8.5kShelves
- 46 The Extraordinary Detective 非常警探 The police are a wall between good people and bad people. They shield the good from harm at the hands of the bad, while also keeping the good from falling to the other side. In this position, they are destined to stay true to their original ideals while facing darkness at every turn... 16kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves
- 47 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 2.5kReads8.4Score241Shelves
- 48 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—Shelves
- 49 Cold Case Tracker: Hunting the Killer 迷案追踪之追凶 In a century-old village, residents suddenly begin dying one after another. The police are at a loss, with no choice but to seek Su Qing’s help. Su Qing accepts their request and sets out for the village. As the investigation deepens, a terrifying truth buried for many years gradually comes to light... 163Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 50 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—Score103Shelves
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