Zhou Haohui

Also known as: 「中」周浩晖, 周浩晖著

Born
1977–present
Nationality
Chinese
Notable works
Death Notice: The Complete Collection (The Darker Trilogy)Death Notice 2: Fate (Complete in Two Parts)Death Notice Series (4-Volume Set): Death Notice · Farewell Song · Fate (Volumes 1 and 2)

21 written works

About the author

Zhou Haohui, born in 1977 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, is a Chinese suspense and mystery writer with a master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. He has long devoted himself to suspense and mystery fiction. Ten of his works are included in the collection, among them the four-volume Darker series, Darker 2: Fate, Darker 3: Farewell Song, The Evil Hypnotist: Heart's Cave, Soul-Stealing Valley, as well as Zhou Haohui's High-IQ Suspense Stories and Zhou Haohui's Classic推理 collection. His writing is known for tightly reasoned plots and tense pacing, often blending criminal investigation with psychological elements to create a high-IQ suspense style. He enjoys considerable recognition among Chinese mystery readers, and his works are categorized under suspense and mystery as well as classic works.

Written (21)

The Dark One Tetralogy (Complete 4 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.1
The Dark One Tetralogy (Complete 4 Volumes) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Eighteen years ago, a bizarre explosion killed detective Luo Fei's girlfriend and his friend Yuan Zhibang at the same time. Eighteen years later, the …
Zhou Haohui's High-IQ Suspense Novels cover
Rating 4.0
Zhou Haohui's High-IQ Suspense Novels Zhou Haohui Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Clever tricks are only the surface of high-IQ crime; only by seeing through the mind can the truth be revealed. Behind every story that twists and twi…
The Dark One cover
Rating 4.0
The Dark One Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 To defeat a flawless, high-IQ killer, you have to be even more insane than he is! Anyone who receives a "Death Notice" will be brutally murdered by a …
The Dark One 2: Fate cover
Rating 4.0
The Dark One 2: Fate Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Anyone who receives a “Death Notice” will, on the date foretold, be brutally killed by a mysterious assassin. Even if the victim calls the police, eve…
Zhou Haohui's Classic Collection of Mystery and Suspense (Complete 10 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Zhou Haohui's Classic Collection of Mystery and Suspense (Complete 10 Volumes) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 A definitive collection of representative works by Zhou Haohui, "China's Keigo Higashino" and master of mystery and suspense, including the Darker Qua…
The Evil Hypnotist: Cave of the Heart cover
Rating 3.9
The Evil Hypnotist: Cave of the Heart Zhou Haohui Tongxin Publishing House (now Beijing Daily Press) · 2021 In fact, hypnosis has long been used in every walk of life: psychiatrists use it to heal, advertisers to sell goods, charlatans to cheat and swindle..…
The Dark One 3: Farewell Song cover
Rating 3.9
The Dark One 3: Farewell Song Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 To defeat a flawless, highly intelligent killer, you have to be even more insane than he is! Everyone who receives a "Death Notice" is killed by the m…
Soul-Snatching Valley cover
Rating 3.9
Soul-Snatching Valley Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 One quiet night, a boy in evening self-study suddenly bolts from his classroom in terror and runs madly for more than ten kilometers along the road un…
The Ominous Painting cover
Rating 3.8
The Ominous Painting Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The Ominous Painting was made by a monk whose dharma name was 'Kongwang' and had been sealed in Kumu Temple for many years. No one knew what it depict…
The Dark One Side Story: Punishment cover
Rating 3.8
The Dark One Side Story: Punishment Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Eumenides is locked deep in prison—so who is sending the mysterious note: all guilty people must be punished! A former nephrologist is abducted and ki…
Death Notice: The Complete Collection (The Darker Trilogy) cover
Rating 4.2
Death Notice: The Complete Collection (The Darker Trilogy) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2018 The Complete Death Notice Collection (renamed The Darker Quartet in the 2018 Dook Culture edition) is the core anthology of Zhou Haohui's "Detective L…
Selected Works of Zhou Haohui (9 Volumes) (4 volumes of Death Notice, 2 volumes of The Evil Hypnotist, The Fiendish Painting, Ghost-Watching Slope, Soul-Snatching Valley) cover
Rating 4.0
Selected Works of Zhou Haohui (9 Volumes) (4 volumes of Death Notice, 2 volumes of The Evil Hypnotist, The Fiendish Painting, Ghost-Watching Slope, Soul-Snatching Valley) Zhou Haohui Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2015 This Selected Works of Zhou Haohui collects nine representative novels by the suspense writer Zhou Haohui, a Tsinghua engineering master's graduate kn…
Death Notice 2: Fate (Complete in Two Parts) cover
Rating 4.2
Death Notice 2: Fate (Complete in Two Parts) Zhou Haohui Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2014 Death Notice 2: Fate is the second of the three-volume Death Notice series featuring the detective Luo Fei, by Zhou Haohui; the book is divided into t…
Letter of Death: The Dark One cover
Rating 4.1
Letter of Death: The Dark One Zhou Haohui Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2014 This is a high-IQ crime thriller featuring the detective Luo Fei, and the first book in the "Letter of Death" series (later reissued under the title T…
The Banquet Duel cover
Rating 3.5
The Banquet Duel Zhou Haohui China Overseas Publishing House · 2012 In the third month of spring, when the willows bloom, Yangzhou's three great restaurants—Yixiaotian, Tianxiang Pavilion, and Jingyue Studio—gather for…
The Banquet Contest cover
The Banquet Contest Zhou Haohui China Overseas Publishing House · 2012 The Banquet Contest is a full-length culinary novel by Yangzhou-born writer Zhou Haohui, set against the backdrop of Huaiyang cuisine. It was first pu…
Death Notice Series (4-Volume Set): Death Notice · Farewell Song · Fate (Volumes 1 and 2) cover
Rating 4.2
Death Notice Series (4-Volume Set): Death Notice · Farewell Song · Fate (Volumes 1 and 2) Zhou Haohui Liaoning Education Press · 2011 This set collects all four volumes of Zhou Haohui's Death Notice trilogy: Death Notice, Death Notice: Farewell Song (the grand finale), and Death Noti…
Death Notice: Farewell Song, Part Two (The Finale) cover
Rating 4.2
Death Notice: Farewell Song, Part Two (The Finale) Zhou Haohui Liaoning Education Press · 2011 Farewell Song (Part Two) is the concluding volume of Zhou Haohui's Death Notice trilogy in the Detective Luo Fei series, published by Liaoning Educati…
Death Notice: Song of Parting (Part One) cover
Rating 4.0
Death Notice: Song of Parting (Part One) Zhou Haohui Liaoning Education Press · 2011 Death Notice: Song of Parting (Part One) is the first half of the third book in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice trilogy, part of the Detective Luo Fei seri…
Midnight Thriller Series (8-Book Set) cover
Rating 3.5
Midnight Thriller Series (8-Book Set) Dongyin Louzhu / Zhou Haohui / Yu Yijian / Yidu Cangqiong / Yin He / 吴尔芬 / Baihua Street Cousin Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2011 Midnight Thriller Series (8-Book Set) is a curated collection of Chinese horror and suspense novels released by Phoenix Publishing House around 2011. …

Publishers

China Overseas Publishing HousePhoenix Books, Ltd.Beijing Times Chinese PressTongxin Publishing House (now Beijing Daily Press)Henan Literature and Art Publishing HouseHainan Publishing HouseLiaoning Education Press