Callan

Fan Luo is a Chinese woman writer from Shandong known for her fantasy mystery fiction. Her pen name derives from the line “Drunk, I lie amid the mountain fences, idly watching the flowers fall,” and her English name is Callan. She began writing in 2005 and is skilled at urban fantasy, supernatural mystery, and adventure-action stories. Her prose is lively and fluid, with brisk pacing, and she blends supernatural and action elements into the mystery genre. Her representative works include The Taoist Master's Position, Absolute Zero, Wang Bujian Wang, and Cold Case Reopened; the Absolute Zero series is notably extensive, and she has also written the Parallel Lines series, including Parallel Lines 2: Malice and Parallel Lines 3: The Killing Trap. Several of her works have been translated into Vietnamese and Thai, giving her a readership in overseas Chinese-language circles. Public information is limited, and details such as her birth and death years are not clearly recorded.