A Collection of Suspense Stories from Foreign Lands

Part One: Silver Cross Hunt On a rainy night in Buranov, three bodies with silver cross marks appeared one after another. The dead were all key members of the notorious counterfeiting group. The encrypted note left at the scene was decoded and turned out to be the exclusive password of Detective Karen who disappeared mysteriously three years ago. Former police detective Elias Thorne has long since retired and relies on repairing antique clocks to stitch together broken memories. The disappearance of his partner Karen three years ago is an unhealable scar in his heart. But this serial murder case was like a key that pried open the dusty truth, forcing him to return to the dark world full of lies and blood. The cross mark is the core pattern of the counterfeit banknote template. The encrypted information hides the shocking secret of collusion between government and businessmen, and more and more clues are pointing to the murderer himself. Karen's sister Lena holds key technology but keeps it secret; the former prosecutor lies dead on the street, clutching counterfeit money with Elias's fingerprints before her death. Memory fragments are chaotically intertwined, undercover suspicions, betrayal traps, and power conspiracies are nested layer by layer. When the mastermind disguised as Karen showed his fangs, and when the truth about the drug tampering three years ago surfaced, Elias discovered that he had already been trapped in a hunting game in the name of justice... Under the silver cross is the persistence of brotherhood and salvation in the darkness. In the rain of bullets and raging fire in the abandoned factory, truth and lies collide, and obsession and conscience confront each other. This mystery that spans three years will finally come to a heart-stirring conclusion when the sun rises. The follow-up parts are coming one after another...