Suspense Preservation Technique: a Mystery Masterpiece That is Still Reversing Until the Last Page
悬念保鲜术:直到最后一页仍在反转的推理神作
The suspense in some novels is like an onion, peeling off one layer and another; in others, it is like a time bomb, which explodes only after reading the last line. This book list is specially created for readers who "will be driven crazy by spoilers". It includes mystery classics that maintain suspense until the last punctuation mark - the truth about the murderer emerges later than you think, and the truth behind the truth will continue to grow even after you close the book.
1Soushuling
General Fiction扫鼠岭
Hu Yanyun
Ten years ago. A serial murder occurred in the western suburbs that resulted in the death of four people. When Zhou Liping, who was under 18 years old, was arrested, everyone believed that he was the real murderer. Only Lin Xiangming, a police officer student who assisted in the investigation of the task force, insisted that Zhou Liping was only responsible for the last case. Zhou Liping was ultimately sentenced to only ten years in prison. Ten years later. Late at night, on Sweeping Ridge, a raging fire broke out in the tunnel pavilion of an abandoned subway station. Firefighters found multiple bodies at the bottom of the pavilion. Surveillance video and on-site evidence showed that the person who caused this tragedy was Zhou Liping, who had been released shortly after his release. This time, who is going to clear his name...
Ten years ago. A serial murder occurred in the western suburbs that resulted in the death of four people. When Zhou Liping, who was under 18 years old, was arrested, everyone believed that he was the real murderer. Only Lin Xiangming, a police officer student who assisted in the investigation of the task force, insisted that Zhou Liping was only responsible for the last case. Zhou Liping was ultimately sentenced to only ten years in prison. Ten years later. Late at night, on Sweeping Ridge, a raging fire broke out in the tunnel pavilion of an abandoned subway station. Firefighters found multiple bodies at the bottom of the pavilion. Surveillance video and on-site evidence showed that the person who caused this tragedy was Zhou Liping, who had been released shortly after his release. This time, who is going to clear his name...
A young criminal who was unjustly imprisoned ten years ago and the number one suspect in the corpse-burning case in Shuling Ridge ten years later - when everyone believed that "the devil has returned", only veteran detective Lin Xiangming saw the second corpse in the fire and was rewriting the truth...
2Knight's Sacrifice
General Fiction骑士的献祭
That Much
Snakeskin bags containing body parts were discovered one after another in the river in the community. After identification, the deceased was dismembered. The perpetrators were cruel and had strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. The task force was temporarily in trouble. Police officer Lao Feng followed the clues on the snakeskin bag and arrived at the criminal's residence, but the latter seemed to have just escaped. The strange thing is that according to the narrations of colleagues, neighbors and his daughter, the criminal seems to be a "good old man", and he does not look like the inhuman corpse-mutilator... The daughter who refuses to cooperate, the looming "fifth member", rumors of "vampire rats", frequent fire cases... As the case gradually becomes clear, a family tragedy that has been sealed for many years has surfaced. It turned out that the deceased was the criminal's ex-wife. To him, she betrayed, hurt, and left. She once had ambitions to reach the sky, but she fell to pieces in the dangerous world; to her, he stretched out his hand again and again, trying to pull her legs out of the mud, but she fell into it again. Only with strong love can there be strong hatred, but kindness allows him to liberate a person. In the wasteland of the world, a muffled thunder struck the ground and faded away sadly. A father reached the moment of death...
Snakeskin bags containing body parts were discovered one after another in the river in the community. After identification, the deceased was dismembered. The perpetrators were cruel and had strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. The task force was temporarily in trouble. Police officer Lao Feng followed the clues on the snakeskin bag and arrived at the criminal's residence, but the latter seemed to have just escaped. The strange thing is that according to the narrations of colleagues, neighbors and his daughter, the criminal seems to be a "good old man", and he does not look like the inhuman corpse-mutilator... The daughter who refuses to cooperate, the looming "fifth member", rumors of "vampire rats", frequent fire cases... As the case gradually becomes clear, a family tragedy that has been sealed for many years has surfaced. It turned out that the deceased was the criminal's ex-wife. To him, she betrayed, hurt, and left. She once had ambitions to reach the sky, but she fell to pieces in the dangerous world; to her, he stretched out his hand again and again, trying to pull her legs out of the mud, but she fell into it again. Only with strong love can there be strong hatred, but kindness allows him to liberate a person. In the wasteland of the world, a muffled thunder struck the ground and faded away sadly. A father reached the moment of death...
Why is a model parent in the eyes of neighbors hiding diagrams of hand-dismembered bodies hidden in a bedroom drawer? The secret of the "fifth person" behind my daughter's silence is more poignant than the broken corpse!
3人骨拼图
H
On her last patrol before switching to civilian duty, Amelia is called to a crime scene where a grisly corpse is found. She immediately speculated, but her opinion was ignored. Paralyzed and able to move only one finger, Lem, a forensic expert, is seriously considering ending his life. When colleagues try to cheer him up by inviting him to solve the gruesome case, he declares that such a minor case isn't worth his time. However, when he carefully studied the documents and photos of the mutilated corpses, he became interested in the case. The murderer threw out clues one after another, seemingly trying to lure them into discovering the next crime scene. In the race against death, they gradually realized that there was something hidden...
On her last patrol before switching to civilian duty, Amelia is called to a crime scene where a grisly corpse is found. She immediately speculated, but her opinion was ignored. Paralyzed and able to move only one finger, Lem, a forensic expert, is seriously considering ending his life. When colleagues try to cheer him up by inviting him to solve the gruesome case, he declares that such a minor case isn't worth his time. However, when he carefully studied the documents and photos of the mutilated corpses, he became interested in the case. The murderer threw out clues one after another, seemingly trying to lure them into discovering the next crime scene. In the race against death, they gradually realized that there was something hidden...
When a paralyzed genius forensic doctor uses one finger to dismantle a series of corpse cases, his "crippled combination" with a rookie policewoman gradually discovers that each crime scene is an invitation carefully arranged by the murderer, and the ultimate prey is themselves.
4Balloon Man
General Fiction气球人
Chen Haoji
Douban score 8.2! The first prize winner of the Shimada Shoji Mystery Novel Award and the contemporary Chinese mystery genius Chen Haoji! A series of sci-fi mystery short stories that took 9 years to complete! It tells about an anti-hero who is both good and evil, like "Deadpool", "I thought I was a hunter, but I didn't know that I was also the prey." The protagonist "Balloon Man" accidentally discovers that he has a supernatural power. As long as the living thing comes into contact with the target's skin, he can input instructions to make the target inflate, expand and twist like a balloon within a specified time, and then "accidentally" die. From then on, the "Balloon Man" became a professional killer, specializing in providing expensive killing services to customers with different requirements...
Douban score 8.2! The first prize winner of the Shimada Shoji Mystery Novel Award and the contemporary Chinese mystery genius Chen Haoji! A series of sci-fi mystery short stories that took 9 years to complete! It tells about an anti-hero who is both good and evil, like "Deadpool", "I thought I was a hunter, but I didn't know that I was also the prey." The protagonist "Balloon Man" accidentally discovers that he has a supernatural power. As long as the living thing comes into contact with the target's skin, he can input instructions to make the target inflate, expand and twist like a balloon within a specified time, and then "accidentally" die. From then on, the "Balloon Man" became a professional killer, specializing in providing expensive killing services to customers with different requirements...
When this book won the Shimada Shoji Award, the judges said it "reinvented the murderer." When Balloon Man discovers that the latest target's instruction is to "let the killer inflate himself", you will suddenly understand the secret of Douban's 8.2 Score - the so-called superpower is just a gun handed to you by fate and aimed at yourself.
5Xingjiang Villa Murder Case
General Fiction星降山庄杀人事件
S
Kazuo Sugishita was demoted to artist assistant by the president for contradicting his boss, and had to go out to work with stargazer Shiro Hoshizono. The two were invited to a mountain resort, but they were trapped in heavy snow together with UFO researchers, novelists, and their secretaries. The sudden murder panicked everyone, and the delay in waiting for rescue made their situation worse. Hoshizono and Sugoshita temporarily serve as "detectives and assistants", working together to find the truth of the case. But when the seemingly incredible phenomena and all illogical behaviors have reasonable explanations, the case investigation has fallen into a puzzle. Where is the secret murderer hiding?
Kazuo Sugishita was demoted to artist assistant by the president for contradicting his boss, and had to go out to work with stargazer Shiro Hoshizono. The two were invited to a mountain resort, but they were trapped in heavy snow together with UFO researchers, novelists, and their secretaries. The sudden murder panicked everyone, and the delay in waiting for rescue made their situation worse. Hoshizono and Sugoshita temporarily serve as "detectives and assistants", working together to find the truth of the case. But when the seemingly incredible phenomena and all illogical behaviors have reasonable explanations, the case investigation has fallen into a puzzle. Where is the secret murderer hiding?
When an unemployed assistant and a stargazer are forced to team up to solve a case, all the UFO scholars and mystery novelists in Blizzard Villa are suspicious - this murder is like a radio jammed by cosmic rays, and every testimony is a mixture of truth and lies.
6罪全书:全新再版(套装共7册)
Spider
A complete crime reasoning book that reveals the depth of human nature. Incredibly shocking character arrangement: Four super police officers, each with their own unique skills, are selected from the police force across the country to detect major crimes that occur in various places. "Centipede" on a rainy night, campus undercover, the legend of the King of Thieves... How much price will we pay in the battle between good and evil? Finding the real murderer is by no means our ultimate goal!
A complete crime reasoning book that reveals the depth of human nature. Incredibly shocking character arrangement: Four super police officers, each with their own unique skills, are selected from the police force across the country to detect major crimes that occur in various places. "Centipede" on a rainy night, campus undercover, the legend of the King of Thieves... How much price will we pay in the battle between good and evil? Finding the real murderer is by no means our ultimate goal!
"Centipede" on a rainy night, campus undercover, the legend of the King of Thieves... How much price will we pay in the battle between good and evil? Finding the real murderer is by no means our ultimate goal!
7Feike's Dinner
General Fiction费可的晚宴
Luojia
A mysterious dinner invitation brings six strangers together at a lakeside villa. The host of the dinner party never showed up. As the plot unfolds, the intertwined memories and reality gradually reveal the connection they had never discovered - it turns out that all of them have been defrauded by the host of this dinner. A series of stories full of desire and betrayal, temptation and tragedy, outlining the life of a liar genius. However, no matter how kind-hearted people are, they also have dark selfish motives. No matter how evil a person is, he may have good thoughts. The truth may only exist in stories that have not been told. The film and television adaptation is currently on the air! Luo Jia, a young writer, was born in Jiangnan and graduated from a prestigious school. The author is good at suspense novels, with fresh and sharp writing and strong visual sense.
A mysterious dinner invitation brings six strangers together at a lakeside villa. The host of the dinner party never showed up. As the plot unfolds, the intertwined memories and reality gradually reveal the connection they had never discovered - it turns out that all of them have been defrauded by the host of this dinner. A series of stories full of desire and betrayal, temptation and tragedy, outlining the life of a liar genius. However, no matter how kind-hearted people are, they also have dark selfish motives. No matter how evil a person is, he may have good thoughts. The truth may only exist in stories that have not been told. The film and television adaptation is currently on the air! Luo Jia, a young writer, was born in Jiangnan and graduated from a prestigious school. The author is good at suspense novels, with fresh and sharp writing and strong visual sense.
The "Avengers" night party of six strangers, a mysterious villa without an owner - when the victims of the fraud discovered the connection with each other, the liar's legacy turned out to be a mirror that showed the stains in everyone's heart.
8Murderer's Manuscript
General Fiction凶手的手稿
N
"Writers describe death to make people long for death; they write tragedy to satisfy people's need for tragedy." On the outskirts of Paris, two girls were killed in a unique way, and the scene was full of unreasonable details. The only clue was a forged fingerprint that didn't belong to anyone. Police traced the fingerprint to the cold case of another girl from two years ago. Strangely, every detail of this case actually corresponds to the classic suspense novel "The Black Dahlia"! As a case imitating classic suspense novels surfaced, everyone finally realized that a highly intelligent serial murderer "novelist" was walking in Paris, using his twisted aesthetics and meticulous layout to offer a clumsy and vicious "tribute" to every "master-level suspense novel"...
"Writers describe death to make people long for death; they write tragedy to satisfy people's need for tragedy." On the outskirts of Paris, two girls were killed in a unique way, and the scene was full of unreasonable details. The only clue was a forged fingerprint that didn't belong to anyone. Police traced the fingerprint to the cold case of another girl from two years ago. Strangely, every detail of this case actually corresponds to the classic suspense novel "The Black Dahlia"! As a case imitating classic suspense novels surfaced, everyone finally realized that a highly intelligent serial murderer "novelist" was walking in Paris, using his twisted aesthetics and meticulous layout to offer a clumsy and vicious "tribute" to every "master-level suspense novel"...
When a serial killer in Paris begins to 'plagiarize' suspense classics such as "The Black Dahlia", every crime detail is a morbid tribute to mystery novels - this is a bloody literary lesson written by a "novelist". Only by understanding his book list can the murder on the next page be prevented.
9I Know a Secret
General Fiction我知道一个秘密
J
The young horror filmmaker is lying on the bed, his posture eerily peaceful. Her arms were at her sides, and she was dressed in black, which made her face look as pale as a ghost. She wore several gold earrings on her ears, and a shining golden eyebrow ring on her right eyebrow. But what caught the attention of forensic doctor Mora was the area under the deceased's eyebrows. Both of her eye sockets were empty, and the eyeballs had been gouged out, leaving only two bloody holes. And in her open palms, there were two ball-shaped objects that made people's hair stand on end. On Christmas Eve, a man was lying on the edge of the pier. He was well-dressed and had a handsome face, like a business elite. However, there were three arrows stuck in his body, so deep that only half of the arrow shafts were exposed. Continuous murders, incredible ways of mutilating corpses, and confusing mysterious hints. Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Ayres team up again! Sometimes, fiction can tell the truth.
The young horror filmmaker is lying on the bed, his posture eerily peaceful. Her arms were at her sides, and she was dressed in black, which made her face look as pale as a ghost. She wore several gold earrings on her ears, and a shining golden eyebrow ring on her right eyebrow. But what caught the attention of forensic doctor Mora was the area under the deceased's eyebrows. Both of her eye sockets were empty, and the eyeballs had been gouged out, leaving only two bloody holes. And in her open palms, there were two ball-shaped objects that made people's hair stand on end. On Christmas Eve, a man was lying on the edge of the pier. He was well-dressed and had a handsome face, like a business elite. However, there were three arrows stuck in his body, so deep that only half of the arrow shafts were exposed. Continuous murders, incredible ways of mutilating corpses, and confusing mysterious hints. Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Ayres team up again! Sometimes, fiction can tell the truth.
As the representative work of the "Rizzoli & Ayers" series, this book perfectly combines forensic details with psychological thriller. When Mora discovers under the microscope that "the eyeball incision shows professional surgical quality", the reader will suddenly realize: the most terrifying thing is never the bloody scene, but the murderer's paranoid pursuit of "perfect criminal aesthetics".
10Mystery on the Twelfth Floor
General Fiction十二楼谜案
Ning Hangyi
A "big family" composed of strangers, an inheritance worth 200 million yuan, four murder cases with clever methods, all the unsolved mysteries, and the clues vaguely point to the haunted house on the twelfth floor. The case of corpses hidden in the refrigerator two years ago, and the series of murders of inheritance heirs two years later, the murderer never seems to be far away from the victim. A mysterious couple who escaped from the past with their mentally retarded son, a middle-aged woman who spent her savings to buy a haunted house by mistake, a terminally ill rural teacher, a emotionally wounded single mother, a pole dancer who left her hometown, an e-sports player eager to get ahead... The desire for money seems to be enough to be the motive for every heir to commit a crime. In this "Battle Royale" of inheritance heirs, the truth is nothing more than a cruel irony about love, revealed by the people who seem to least believe in love.
A "big family" composed of strangers, an inheritance worth 200 million yuan, four murder cases with clever methods, all the unsolved mysteries, and the clues vaguely point to the haunted house on the twelfth floor. The case of corpses hidden in the refrigerator two years ago, and the series of murders of inheritance heirs two years later, the murderer never seems to be far away from the victim. A mysterious couple who escaped from the past with their mentally retarded son, a middle-aged woman who spent her savings to buy a haunted house by mistake, a terminally ill rural teacher, a emotionally wounded single mother, a pole dancer who left her hometown, an e-sports player eager to get ahead... The desire for money seems to be enough to be the motive for every heir to commit a crime. In this "Battle Royale" of inheritance heirs, the truth is nothing more than a cruel irony about love, revealed by the people who seem to least believe in love.
An inheritance of 200 million triggered a "Battle Royale in a Haunted Mansion" - when the shadow of the corpse hidden in the refrigerator shrouded the twelfth floor, six strange 'family members' fell into a dead end amid mutual suspicion, and the truth turned out to be that the murderer used the most twisted way to interpret the definition of love.
11Glass Hammer
General Fiction玻璃之锤
J
On a sunny Sunday, the president of Bayleaf Company died suddenly in his office. The cause of death was a severe blow to the head, and the scene was a glass secret room under seven layers of security. The office is on the 12th floor. The entire building is surrounded by embedded glass windows, making it impossible to enter from the outside. There is a security room at the entrance of the building, and registration is required to enter the building. The elevator to the 12th floor requires special password authentication. All the stair doors leading to the 12th floor were locked that day, and there were no signs of lock picking. There is a surveillance camera at the door of the office, which was operating normally at the time of the incident. The office has glass windows, all made of bulletproof glass. There were three secretaries working nearby at the time of the incident and no abnormalities were found. How did the murderer break through these seven levels of security, commit murder and escape unscathed?
On a sunny Sunday, the president of Bayleaf Company died suddenly in his office. The cause of death was a severe blow to the head, and the scene was a glass secret room under seven layers of security. The office is on the 12th floor. The entire building is surrounded by embedded glass windows, making it impossible to enter from the outside. There is a security room at the entrance of the building, and registration is required to enter the building. The elevator to the 12th floor requires special password authentication. All the stair doors leading to the 12th floor were locked that day, and there were no signs of lock picking. There is a surveillance camera at the door of the office, which was operating normally at the time of the incident. The office has glass windows, all made of bulletproof glass. There were three secretaries working nearby at the time of the incident and no abnormalities were found. How did the murderer break through these seven levels of security, commit murder and escape unscathed?
In the glass secret room under seven levels of security, the murderer appeared and disappeared out of thin air! It took the million-selling author 20 years to conceive this book. The original Douban score was 8.6, Sweeping two major mystery lists.
12The Mystery of the Greek Coffin
General Fiction希腊棺材之谜
(us) Ellery Quinn
At the collector's funeral, the will disappeared. The police immediately sealed off the scene and searched every corner, but found nothing. Detective Ellery Queen intervenes in the case and points out that there is only one part of the scene that has not yet been searched - the inside of a newly buried Greek coffin! The cemetery was dug up and the coffin was taken out. Instead of a will, there was an extra corpse in the coffin. The body was unidentified and covered in body spots. It was obvious that he had been murdered! Who is the other body? Why did he suddenly appear in the coffin? Where does the missing will go? Suspicions abounded for a while, but Quinn didn't know yet that the murderer had already arranged everything. It was just waiting for the detective to use his proud logical reasoning to take the initiative to go down the completely wrong path step by step...
At the collector's funeral, the will disappeared. The police immediately sealed off the scene and searched every corner, but found nothing. Detective Ellery Queen intervenes in the case and points out that there is only one part of the scene that has not yet been searched - the inside of a newly buried Greek coffin! The cemetery was dug up and the coffin was taken out. Instead of a will, there was an extra corpse in the coffin. The body was unidentified and covered in body spots. It was obvious that he had been murdered! Who is the other body? Why did he suddenly appear in the coffin? Where does the missing will go? Suspicions abounded for a while, but Quinn didn't know yet that the murderer had already arranged everything. It was just waiting for the detective to use his proud logical reasoning to take the initiative to go down the completely wrong path step by step...
Ellery Quinn's textbook-level trick of "solving four cases in one case" is known as the "Bible of Reasoning"; the four logical deductions are reversed layer by layer, and the final truth subverts all assumptions.
13The Secret Room of 10 Million People
General Fiction一千万人的密室
Cai Jun
In a city with a population of tens of millions, a mysterious secret room murder case. To find the murderer in a secret room with 10 million people, there is only one in 10 million chance. The novel not only contains the clever tricks set up by the murderer, but also the extraordinary reasoning ability of the protagonist, as well as the strong will of the criminal police to solve the case. The love between father and son, the love between mother and son, the love between father and daughter... The profound redemption of each other and the resolution of the conflicts that lasted for fifteen years. Classic suspense reasoning structure, three consecutive murder cases, interlocking, peeling off the cocoon layer by layer. Everyone may be an accomplice of crime, and everyone will repay justice... "Investigator" Lei Yu has a background as a top student majoring in criminal investigation at the Public Security University, and has a grudge relationship with the police that is constantly being resolved and confused. As the "son of a murderer", he is full of contradictions. Leiyu is a tough guy, cynical and poisonous, but in fact he is soft-hearted and hates evil as much as he hates evil. He walks between the two paths of black and white. He has both the heart of a bodhisattva and the means of thunder. It can help good people, but it can also deter evil people. In fact, he is a rare character in China's local suspense works today.
In a city with a population of tens of millions, a mysterious secret room murder case. To find the murderer in a secret room with 10 million people, there is only one in 10 million chance. The novel not only contains the clever tricks set up by the murderer, but also the extraordinary reasoning ability of the protagonist, as well as the strong will of the criminal police to solve the case. The love between father and son, the love between mother and son, the love between father and daughter... The profound redemption of each other and the resolution of the conflicts that lasted for fifteen years. Classic suspense reasoning structure, three consecutive murder cases, interlocking, peeling off the cocoon layer by layer. Everyone may be an accomplice of crime, and everyone will repay justice... "Investigator" Lei Yu has a background as a top student majoring in criminal investigation at the Public Security University, and has a grudge relationship with the police that is constantly being resolved and confused. As the "son of a murderer", he is full of contradictions. Leiyu is a tough guy, cynical and poisonous, but in fact he is soft-hearted and hates evil as much as he hates evil. He walks between the two paths of black and white. He has both the heart of a bodhisattva and the means of thunder. It can help good people, but it can also deter evil people. In fact, he is a rare character in China's local suspense works today.
In a steel forest with a population of tens of millions, a bloody redemption spanned fifteen years - when Lei Yu, the "son of a murderer", used his poisonous tongue and bodhisattva heart to crack the triple secret chamber, the weight of the truth was enough to crush the backs of all the accomplices.
14The Proposal Room
General Fiction求婚的密室
(japan) Sasazawa Saho
"The Secret Room of Proposal" is an original mystery novel written by Japanese mystery writer Sasawa Saho. The novel features exquisite locked room mysteries as its main feature. It was selected by the famous Japanese mystery master Arisugawa Arisu into the "Illustrated Book of Locked Room Mysteries" and became one of Japan's 20 classic locked room mysteries. It has been published in 5 editions in Japan. The work tells the story of the wealthy Professor Toyoshi Saijo holding a party in the name of choosing a husband for his daughter Saijo Fujiko at a mountain villa in Karuizawa. Unexpectedly, on the day when the candidate for husband was announced, Professor Saijo and his wife died tragically in a closed underground warehouse (secret room). Journalist Shojiro Amachi, who had a secret affair with Fujiko Saijo, had to participate in the reasoning battle. So, who is the murderer among the 13 guests who attended the party, and how did the murderer successfully carry out the secret room murder? If you want to crack this double psychological and physical secret room, perhaps everything must start with the murderer's deep-seated revenge and resentment and maliciousness until death...
"The Secret Room of Proposal" is an original mystery novel written by Japanese mystery writer Sasawa Saho. The novel features exquisite locked room mysteries as its main feature. It was selected by the famous Japanese mystery master Arisugawa Arisu into the "Illustrated Book of Locked Room Mysteries" and became one of Japan's 20 classic locked room mysteries. It has been published in 5 editions in Japan. The work tells the story of the wealthy Professor Toyoshi Saijo holding a party in the name of choosing a husband for his daughter Saijo Fujiko at a mountain villa in Karuizawa. Unexpectedly, on the day when the candidate for husband was announced, Professor Saijo and his wife died tragically in a closed underground warehouse (secret room). Journalist Shojiro Amachi, who had a secret affair with Fujiko Saijo, had to participate in the reasoning battle. So, who is the murderer among the 13 guests who attended the party, and how did the murderer successfully carry out the secret room murder? If you want to crack this double psychological and physical secret room, perhaps everything must start with the murderer's deep-seated revenge and resentment and maliciousness until death...
Sasawa Saho uses ice pick-like words to prove: The most perfect secret room is often forged from the darkest corner of the human heart.
15Lost Past and Future Crime
General Fiction失去的过去与未来的犯罪
I
[Science fiction imagination + Japanese reasoning + memory trick + digital immortality] When all mankind loses its collective memory, will the original "I" still exist? One day, Rino, a female high school student, was horrified to find that her memory had become intermittent. She could not even remember what happened ten minutes ago. What's even more frightening is that this sudden "great forgetfulness" is erupting on a large scale around the world. Rino's relatives, friends, TV news anchors, and staff from all walks of life have all shown the same symptoms. The world has fallen into chaos, and human civilization is in danger. People call this symptom - anterograde amnesia, and the first people to develop this symptom spontaneously established the "Pioneer" organization. They worked hard to seek self-rescue, and finally invented an "external memory device" to store memories in memory strips, which can be inserted and removed from the body at any time. Since then, human civilization has entered a new era in which memory and soul are separated. Newly born humans will have a card slot placed on their body to access the memory strip. The birth of the memory strip also makes the human brain's "memory ability" stronger and its "processing ability" more efficient. But all the problems that followed began to appear... Tetsuji and Chisako, who were about to go on a blind date, mistakenly took each other's memory strips, accidentally accessed each other's memories and learned everything about each other and were "forced" to get married; in order to let his son get into the ideal university, Ishida rented the memory strips of top student Toshiya. After the incident, he destroyed Toshiya's body, just to save his son. Completely possessing the memory of the top student; the spiritualist rented out his body to give the deceased's memory a temporary shelter, but the selfish couple was unwilling to return the body, causing his memory to die... This book continues Taizo Kobayashi's previous style, adopting the assumption that "personality only depends on memory and not on the brain itself", leading to an absurd human drama.
[Science fiction imagination + Japanese reasoning + memory trick + digital immortality] When all mankind loses its collective memory, will the original "I" still exist? One day, Rino, a female high school student, was horrified to find that her memory had become intermittent. She could not even remember what happened ten minutes ago. What's even more frightening is that this sudden "great forgetfulness" is erupting on a large scale around the world. Rino's relatives, friends, TV news anchors, and staff from all walks of life have all shown the same symptoms. The world has fallen into chaos, and human civilization is in danger. People call this symptom - anterograde amnesia, and the first people to develop this symptom spontaneously established the "Pioneer" organization. They worked hard to seek self-rescue, and finally invented an "external memory device" to store memories in memory strips, which can be inserted and removed from the body at any time. Since then, human civilization has entered a new era in which memory and soul are separated. Newly born humans will have a card slot placed on their body to access the memory strip. The birth of the memory strip also makes the human brain's "memory ability" stronger and its "processing ability" more efficient. But all the problems that followed began to appear... Tetsuji and Chisako, who were about to go on a blind date, mistakenly took each other's memory strips, accidentally accessed each other's memories and learned everything about each other and were "forced" to get married; in order to let his son get into the ideal university, Ishida rented the memory strips of top student Toshiya. After the incident, he destroyed Toshiya's body, just to save his son. Completely possessing the memory of the top student; the spiritualist rented out his body to give the deceased's memory a temporary shelter, but the selfish couple was unwilling to return the body, causing his memory to die... This book continues Taizo Kobayashi's previous style, adopting the assumption that "personality only depends on memory and not on the brain itself", leading to an absurd human drama.
A thought experiment about personality, memory, brain and soul. In a world where memory and soul can be completely separated, "I" have experienced several bizarre lives. Are all those memories "my"? Who is "I"?
16Seven Witnesses
General Fiction七个证人
(japan) Nishimura Kyotaro
A murder broke out on the streets of Tokyo. Based on on-site investigation and witness testimony, the police arrested the suspect Nobuo Saeki and sentenced the young man to nine years in prison. Soon, Saeki died of illness in prison. A year later, Saeki's father plundered seven witnesses related to the case to an isolated island. He carefully built a street scene of the crime scene to verify the authenticity of the testimony one by one. Under the witness of the detective Totsukawa who was brought to the island together, the case was restored bit by bit, and there seemed to be no sign of overturning the case until a witness was suddenly killed...
A murder broke out on the streets of Tokyo. Based on on-site investigation and witness testimony, the police arrested the suspect Nobuo Saeki and sentenced the young man to nine years in prison. Soon, Saeki died of illness in prison. A year later, Saeki's father plundered seven witnesses related to the case to an isolated island. He carefully built a street scene of the crime scene to verify the authenticity of the testimony one by one. Under the witness of the detective Totsukawa who was brought to the island together, the case was restored bit by bit, and there seemed to be no sign of overturning the case until a witness was suddenly killed...
Seven testimonies, perfect exoneration? In an unjust case, how can the real culprit hide the truth? Seven witnesses, who will break the closed loop of logic?
17Absolutely Absent Mystery
General Fiction绝对不在场谜案
(japan) Seiichiro Oyama
A death in the family factory turns twin brothers into enemies. After the younger brother who ran away from home had plastic surgery and had his face changed, he sent a death notice to his older brother, who was later found dead in a closed bedroom. However, the murderer has more than one target, and what's even more frightening is that no one knows what the murderer's face looks like...
A death in the family factory turns twin brothers into enemies. After the younger brother who ran away from home had plastic surgery and had his face changed, he sent a death notice to his older brother, who was later found dead in a closed bedroom. However, the murderer has more than one target, and what's even more frightening is that no one knows what the murderer's face looks like...
A closed town, a murder notice, and a strange corpse! Twin face-swapping × locked room murder × alibi × narrative trick.
18Confessions of a Wicked Woman
General Fiction恶女的告白
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Seven years ago, literary editor Lifan received a submission called "Keeping a Dog". The novel was full of brutal sadism and aversion to men. The work was rated as "heavy-tasting and demeaning to men" and was not published, and the author has since disappeared. Seven years later, Lifan received the second submission from the mysterious writer. The story begins with the reunion of two old friends from their student days. The two people with different stances have differences in the conversation, and their murderous intention becomes stronger and stronger. "Just kill this woman." As the plot progressed, Lifan was surprised to see his own shadow in the protagonist of the novel. What's even more frightening is that this novel seems to be inextricably linked to the violent "Raising Dogs" seven years ago...
Seven years ago, literary editor Lifan received a submission called "Keeping a Dog". The novel was full of brutal sadism and aversion to men. The work was rated as "heavy-tasting and demeaning to men" and was not published, and the author has since disappeared. Seven years later, Lifan received the second submission from the mysterious writer. The story begins with the reunion of two old friends from their student days. The two people with different stances have differences in the conversation, and their murderous intention becomes stronger and stronger. "Just kill this woman." As the plot progressed, Lifan was surprised to see his own shadow in the protagonist of the novel. What's even more frightening is that this novel seems to be inextricably linked to the violent "Raising Dogs" seven years ago...
This work, the work within the work, and the work within the work within the work are reversed layer by layer, and the dual-line narrative describes sexual violence, gender discrimination, domestic violence, and workplace discrimination. If I don't kill them, I will be killed by them. You know everything, are you willing to be my accomplice?
19She Was Murdered for the Second Time
General Fiction二度遭到杀害的她
(japanese) Qiuweiqiu
The 20th "This mystery novel is amazing!" Special Jury Award! A shining new star of new mystery novels. In modern Japan, there is a person who can temporarily resurrect the dead, called a ritual master. The Evangelical Association, which is responsible for managing these people with abilities, sent Heixu and Baiye to the Zhou Fang family to resurrect Zhenzhu, the daughter of the Zhou Fang family who was strangled to death by an unknown person. However, her body was severely damaged after the two arrived - the purpose of destroying the body was to seal the mouths of the deceased who had been resurrected through the puppet ceremony. As long as the corpse's eyes are dug out and the tongue is cut off, even if the soul returns to the corpse, the deceased will not be able to reveal the murderer. Who committed the crime and at what time? Where are the missing body parts hidden?
The 20th "This mystery novel is amazing!" Special Jury Award! A shining new star of new mystery novels. In modern Japan, there is a person who can temporarily resurrect the dead, called a ritual master. The Evangelical Association, which is responsible for managing these people with abilities, sent Heixu and Baiye to the Zhou Fang family to resurrect Zhenzhu, the daughter of the Zhou Fang family who was strangled to death by an unknown person. However, her body was severely damaged after the two arrived - the purpose of destroying the body was to seal the mouths of the deceased who had been resurrected through the puppet ceremony. As long as the corpse's eyes are dug out and the tongue is cut off, even if the soul returns to the corpse, the deceased will not be able to reveal the murderer. Who committed the crime and at what time? Where are the missing body parts hidden?
Sin in the name of love leads to the abyss of eternal destruction. A failed puppet ceremony, a surge of overwhelming malice, who killed her for the second time?
20Broken Murderous Intention
General Fiction破碎的杀意
(japan) Uraga Kazuhiro
The fiancée Satomi of the popular cartoonist Ryuji Jinuchi died in a traffic accident. Jinnai suffered an emotional blow, causing the popular heroine in his comic series to suddenly go offline for no reason. Soon, protests came in from fans, who sent a large number of letters full of criticism and even insults. Jinnai accidentally discovered that one of the letters sent two days before Satomi's death seemed to predict Satomi's death. What is the truth behind the death of a lover? Jinnai is determined to investigate clearly, but he is betrayed one after another... Is all this a prophecy of fate or a foretelling of murder?
The fiancée Satomi of the popular cartoonist Ryuji Jinuchi died in a traffic accident. Jinnai suffered an emotional blow, causing the popular heroine in his comic series to suddenly go offline for no reason. Soon, protests came in from fans, who sent a large number of letters full of criticism and even insults. Jinnai accidentally discovered that one of the letters sent two days before Satomi's death seemed to predict Satomi's death. What is the truth behind the death of a lover? Jinnai is determined to investigate clearly, but he is betrayed one after another... Is all this a prophecy of fate or a foretelling of murder?
Multiple reversals × superpower settings × death battle, when you think you find the murderer... The real reversal has just begun!