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- 1 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
- 2 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. 134Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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
- 4 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
- 5 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
- 6 Case Files 案件档案 Partly based on real events, with fact and fiction mixed together. Please read with an open mind. Some parts are real. The rest is fictional. The real cases are available to look up online, for those who want to verify them. There is no fixed protagonist. There is no fixed setting. Anything can happen. Some sensitive terms have been replaced with other words. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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 6.3kReads8.2Score725Shelves
- 8 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. 6.9kReads7.2Score363Shelves
- 9 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. 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 You're a Murder Suspect, So Why Do You Keep Solving Murder Cases? 你个凶杀嫌疑犯，怎么天天破命案 [Hardcore deduction + forensic criminal investigation + must-read masterpiece + no idiot plots + career comes first] What do you mean, the evidence is irrefutable? I really didn’t kill anyone! Lin Ming was once a top detective. After unexpectedly transmigrating to a parallel world, he finds himself in an interrogation room, accused of murder. Finding the crucial evidence and clearing his name becomes his most urgent task. An incorrectly shaped bloodstain leads him to the murder weapon someone tr 4Reads—Score127Shelves
- 11 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
- 12 After Divorcing My Husband, I Became a Female Litigator 休夫后，我成了女讼师 On the day Pei Zhiyuan graduated from high school, Jiang Mingzhao thought three years of hardship had finally paid off. Seven days later, her mother-in-law died under mysterious circumstances, and her husband produced a confession he had written long ago, personally sending her to face trial. The poison was found in her trunk, her maid identified her in person, and every piece of evidence forced her to admit to a capital crime. But Pei Zhiyuan had forgotten that the laws he had studied and the c 49Reads—Score108Shelves
- 13 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 3.1kReads7.5Score262Shelves
- 14 Death Cruise 绝命游轮 Adapted from a true case that shocked China and the world. A three-deck cruise ship vanishes without a trace… Twenty-four tourists mysteriously disappear… The provincial government sends in the air force and navy, deploying high-precision underwater detection equipment to search for the missing passengers. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Crime: Ten Bizarre Cases 罪恶：十大奇案 Criminal investigation + episodic cases + no romance. A regular case-solving team, with no need to keep track of too many characters. When a case comes in, there’s no time for talk: they get straight to work! A pure battle of logic, a high-stakes storm of intellect. Step into every baffling crime scene, follow the investigation as it unfolds, and face the depths of human nature until the truth finally comes to light. 1.8kReads6.5Score116Shelves
- 16 Bones Buried for Twenty Years 廿年埋骨 In the summer of 1997, five young people who had come to the city for work ran into three thugs on a bus. One confrontation, three lives lost, and a night they could never take back. They buried the bodies and swore never to speak of it again. But secrets don't die. Someone was waiting, and someone was investigating. Twenty years later, a livestream gone wrong brings the whole affair to light again. A marriage built on wrongdoing. Bones that have vanished. What will become of the five of them? 578Reads—Score110Shelves
- 17 This Detective Isn’t Very Cold 这个刑警不太冷 Being a police officer is like standing between two worlds: light on one side and darkness on the other. A police officer's mission is to stop darkness from encroaching on the light. A cop who only knows how to enforce the law impartially and draw a clear line between right and wrong may be a good cop, but will never be an outstanding one. An outstanding cop must know when to compromise and when to step aside for a while. They must remain undaunted even in the face of setbacks, able to walk thro 149Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 18 A Seventies-Era Public Security Officer: My Wife Excels at Solving Cases, Appraising Treasures, and Martial Arts 七零公安我媳妇破案鉴宝文武双全 [Period mystery and antique appraisal, 1v1, both leads are devoted to each other, happy ending] Beneath the frozen cellar on a bitter winter night, star paths lie hidden. Lotus lanterns drift across the water, ferrying departed souls. A crack opens in the eye of an ancient Buddha, feeding greed... In a turbulent era, a string of bizarre murders erupts, national treasures vanish one after another, and a cult’s sacrifices cast a shadow over the land. Every tender act of walking willingly to one’s 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Real Young Master Only Wants to Be a Detective 真少爷只想当刑警 Orphan + The Real Young Master + Provincial Top Scorer (No CP, No System) After returning to his family as the real young master who had been switched at birth, Yan Ci still carried the distinction of being the provincial top scorer and firmly chose to apply to the People’s Public Security University. His change in status never knocked him off course. At school, he was a legendary top student who cracked one baffling case after another in his second year. After joining the force, he took on the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Hunting Killers in the Mist 迷雾缉凶 Solving Crimes in the Mist 140.5kReads—Score584Shelves
- 21 Fengcheng Crime Files 风城罪案录 Synopsis of The Windy City Crime Files At the turn of the century, the industrial hub of Luo City was known as the "Windy City." There, a criminal investigation squad moved between the ruins of steel mills and newly opened internet cafés, solving more than forty bizarre cases. The crimes spanned two eras: an old engineer died in a sealed-off workshop, while a programmer vanished into a virtual trading network. Each case was a snapshot of its time. Investigations ranged from fingerprint tracking 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Half-Cigarette Detective 半支烟神探 He never smokes a cigarette down to the end; the cases he solves are never settled.?? At forty, Chen Mu is a legend who doesn't fit in with the police force. Sloppy in appearance and a little obsessive, he solves cases through a fixation on details and his odd habit of snuffing out a cigarette halfway through. From bizarre accidents to perfect murders, no trick can escape his notice. But Chen Mu has never been after the killer right in front of him. Ten years ago, his father, Chen Guodong, was d 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Death God's Code 亡神密码 Qin Jingfeng was a criminal investigator with the municipal public security bureau. A seemingly "open-and-shut" suicide case he takes on leads to a bizarre case from six years earlier, involving "five deaths and four corpses." As the Grim Reaper swings his scythe time and again, the numbers left on the bodies become the key to solving the case. To stop more deaths, Qin Jingfeng keeps company with the uncanny and feels his way through the darkness, deciphering the Grim Reaper's code and becoming 22.4kReads8.2Score2.1kShelves
- 24 When a Forensic Pathologist Starts Solving Cases 当法医开始破案 Forensic doctor Chen Mo transmigrates to 1997 and discovers that he is the sole suspect in a murder case! Faced with seemingly incontrovertible physical evidence, he picks up a scalpel and performs a simulated autopsy on himself. Starting with a wrongful accusation that becomes an ironclad case, he is about to give this world a taste of forensic science! “You’re saying you overturned the physical evidence by comparing your own wounds?” “No. The truth is that these so-called ironclad findi 7.2kReads7.6Score769Shelves
- 25 The Crime-Breaking Expert 破罪强人 Ever-changing methods. Carefully planned murders. A web of tangled mysteries. Was it for love, money, or revenge? What unknown secrets lie behind these cases? Following the truth that every passing leaves a trace, can the police bring the killer lurking in the dark to justice? Crime Busters takes you into the world of real criminal investigation, piece by piece unraveling the truth behind each case. 1.2kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 26 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 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Homicide Squad Chief Has Gone Crazy: He Wants to Interrogate Himself 刑侦队长疯了，他要审讯自己 I just took over a shadowy serial murder case. When I entered the crime scene, I had the strange feeling I'd been there before. Could I be the killer? As I dug deeper into the truth, I uncovered an astonishing secret! 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Woman’s Motive for Murder 女子杀人动机 This book records the true stories of seven female murderers, revealing a hidden world of women who kill. Among them are a mother who killed her own child, a wife who would rather poison her husband than divorce him, and a mother-in-law who brutally murdered her daughter-in-law in three different ways... What drove them to turn their knives on those once closest to them? Who was truly to blame for each of these tragedies? From hope to despair, they fought evil with evil. This book traces the liv 1.5kReads9.2Score394Shelves
- 29 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 39.6kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 30 Reborn in 1999: Solving a Cold Case from the Start, Shocking the Entire Bureau 重生99：开局破获悬案，震惊全局 Reborn in 1999, he becomes the youngest fingerprint expert. In his previous life, he solved countless cases. When he opens his eyes again, he’s back on his first day as a police officer. The cases that once went cold are waiting for him to rewrite their endings. A partial fingerprint or an overlooked detail is enough to leave the real culprit nowhere to hide. From murder cases in county towns to manhunts spanning provinces, fingerprints are the king of evidence, and he is the man behind the king 41.2kReads8.1Score4.6kShelves
- 31 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
- 32 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
- 33 Five-and-a-Half-Year-Old Cutie: The Police Station's Big Shots Fight Over Me 萌宝五岁半，警局大佬抢疯了 [Transmigrate + System + Mystery + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week Investigations + Adorable Child] Police officer Su Xiaoxiao has transmigrated yet again. This time, she's become an adorable five-year-old, and one who's been kidnapped at that. Looking at her chubby little hands and short legs, she figures one kick probably wouldn't even reach the kidnapper's waist. If she can't reach him, that's fine. She just needs to kick hard enough. The police officers who come to rescue the hostage watch in d 1.6kReads8.2Score278Shelves
- 34 My Years Investigating Supernatural Cases for a Mysterious Department 我在神秘部门调查灵异案件那些年 The Years I Spent Investigating Paranormal Cases in a Mysterious Department 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Crime Scene 罪恶现场 The story recreates crime scenes and explores the weaknesses of human nature. Behind every case lies a battle between the police and evil! Each case is adapted from a real incident. Any resemblance is purely coincidental! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Personal Notes on the Nanda Case 南大案个人猜想笔记 Personal Speculation Notes on the Nanda University Case 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Criminal Investigation: I Can See Numbers Above the Victims' Heads 刑侦：我能看见受害者头上的数字 [No CP] [No Romantic Tension] [Episodic Case-Solving] [Period Crime Investigation] [Ensemble Cast] In 1998, forensic medicine intern Yan Xu joins the Nancheng Branch of the Pingzhou Public Security Bureau. At his very first crime scene, he sees a number above an unidentified victim's head, one that only he can see. At first, he thinks it's just a hallucination, until more victims marked with numbers start appearing one after another... 4.8kReads7.1Score568Shelves
- 38 Late-Night Voice [Crime Investigation] 晚声【刑侦】 [Strong female lead, female empowerment, logical deduction, plot twists] As captain of the criminal investigation squad, Chen Wan has handled many strange and brutal cases. A body cut into thirteen pieces, a man bizarrely hanged in women's underwear, silent phone calls that always come at ten o'clock at night, ten skeletons beneath an abandoned half-built tower... “I'm Chen Wan, captain of Criminal Investigation Team One. There's a case I'd like you to assist us with.” And behind each case... Jo 430Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I'm an Embalmer. Don't Flirt with Me at the Funeral Home! 我是入殓师，别在殡仪馆撩我！ Dual protagonists + realistic crime investigation + sweet romance + mildly chilling crime-scene descriptions [A witty, chatty funeral makeup artist × a forensic doctor who flirts in unexpected ways] After spending two years working at a hospital, Liang Manman saw through the hypocrisy of the workplace and simply quit without another job lined up. She went home to help her father run a funeral home, becoming a young woman who prepares the dead for burial. After all, she also has a golden finger: 53.2kReads9.0Score10.8kShelves
- 40 Crime Investigation: I Can See Murder Scenes 刑侦：我能看见凶杀现场 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 303Reads8.7Score103Shelves
- 41 Fresh Out of School and a Homicide Detective, I Find a Body on Day One 刚毕业当刑警，第一天就碰上尸命 Lin Zhixia, a rookie policewoman newly assigned to the Major Crimes Unit, is sorting through old evidence from a decade ago when her fingertips accidentally brush against a long-buried knife sheath. It leads her to a secret clue that has been lurking inside the police station for ten years. Then there’s a scrap of adhesive left at a murder scene in a locked room, seven crooked characters carved into the victim’s blade, and the strange details of a suspect loudly proclaiming his innocence after b 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Crime Investigation: My Eyes Are as Precise as a Ruler 刑侦：我的眼睛就是尺 Xie Chen, a police academy graduate, is a trace evidence examiner with the county criminal investigation unit. Since childhood, he has known his eyesight was extraordinary. His vision is sharp, he notices the tiniest details, and he can discern the fine patterns on even the smallest objects. That keen eyesight always brings unexpected discoveries when he uses it to solve cases. One glance at a dent on a taxi's steering wheel was all it took for Xie Chen to tell it had just been made and left by 21.7kReads7.2Score2.4kShelves
- 43 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. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn in 1998: I Can Replay Crime Scene Footage 重生98：我能回放案发录像 105Reads—Score290Shelves
- 45 Reborn Detective: I Understand Crime Better Than the Killer 重生刑警：我比凶手更懂犯罪 [Criminal investigation + deduction + case-solving + suspenseful mind games + no female lead + episodic cases + revenge] In his previous life, he was a kingpin who moved through the shadows. In this life, he is a detective who strikes fear into the hearts of criminals. A demolition case, a naked corpse in a bamboo grove, a murdered model, a series of killings... Behind each murder, he understands crime better than the killer and knows the criminal mind inside out. He reconstructs crimes by thi 37.8kReads8.6Score4.2kShelves
- 46 Bloodlust and Wildflowers 血欲狂花 Interviews are a hurdle every student faces when entering the working world. The protagonist, Nie Xiaoyu, is an interview candidate too, but not an ordinary one: she is an interview judge. Whenever she encounters people who use interviews to line their own pockets and bully young women, she steps in to mete out justice and punish them. She even deals with those so heinous they have taken lives. Is she really an interview judge, or an evil woman who has committed countless crimes? 611Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 47 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
- 48 Ashes of Memory: The Ten-Year Cold Case Killer Was Me 记忆灰烬之十年悬案凶手竟是我 “In 2033, genius programmer Lu Ming vanished mysteriously from a memory treatment center, leaving behind nothing but a sketch of the seaside. > Ten years later, detective Chen Hao reopens the investigation and discovers that all the evidence points to a villa facing the sea, and a diary filled with crimes. > When he finally stands before the truth, he sees his own name on the diagnosis form: > Patient: Chen Hao. Diagnosis: Dissociative identity disorder, antisocial tendencies. Treatment plan: eu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Crime Scenes: The Cases That Shook the Nation 罪案现场，那些轰动全国的大案 This book is adapted from several real, high-profile criminal cases that once made headlines across the country. Baffling murders, shocking robberies, investigations into cold cases, manhunts spanning multiple provinces... Every case once stunned the nation; every crime concealed a truth unknown to the public. Told from a documentary perspective, this book reconstructs the crime scenes, investigative details, criminals' minds, and the full process of bringing them to justice. These stories are 80.1kReads8.8Score5.6kShelves
- 50 Murder Scene: Staring into the Abyss 命案现场：凝视深渊 [Criminal Investigation Documentary] [Case-of-the-Week] [Ensemble Cast] [No Romance] The story is made up of numerous independent criminal cases. Each case spans five or six chapters, unfolding at a brisk pace in a case-of-the-week format with an ensemble cast and a documentary-style approach. The collection features all kinds of criminal cases, including murders, dismemberments, bizarre incidents, and family massacres... Cases are solved through a combination of crime-scene investigation, foren 3.5kReads—Score296Shelves
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