The Cold Case Unit is a suspenseful detective novel by the Hunan online writer Dugu Qiusheng (real name Song Chunbo). It began serialization on Migu Yuekan and Heiyan Reading in 2015, and a print edition was published by Guizhou People's Publishing House in 2017. The novel is narrated in the first person by a probationary police officer less than six months out of the police academy, assigned to a special department of the provincial bureau: the Cold Case Investigation Unit. The unit takes on only the "hard bones" that even the major crimes teams across the province cannot crack. Such cases are often years old, with crime scenes long since compromised, and can be approached only through traces, forensics, and psychological analysis. The story opens with the case of a six-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out. The boy's aunt, under public pressure, throws herself into a well and dies, and her death is ruled a suicide from guilt. The protagonist accompanies the investigation expert Elder Ge and the female officer Zhang Yihan to the scene, and from details such as scratch marks on the well wall and the dead woman's hemophobia, they conclude that the "suicide" conceals another story, thereby uncovering a case of murder by someone the victim knew. Thereafter, unit cases unfold one after another: a corpse floating in an old well, a suicide on a graveyard hill, an old case in Lianhua Village. Behind the eerie and bizarre rumors often lie calculation and conflicts of interest, while a grand conspiracy running through the entire book gradually tightens. In writing, the author drew on real social cases such as the "boy whose eyes were gouged out" and the "Hunan murder and corpse-cooking case," adding a large amount of fictional plot. The style is blunt and gritty, with strong visual impact; the author bills it as "no worst, only worse," making it a typical fast-paced online suspense thriller.
这本书的可读性，首先来自它“从最脏最难的案子写起”的设定。悬案组不是威风的重案组，而是专门收拾别人啃不动的冷案、死案，这种“退无可退”的位置让每一次查案都带着逆风翻盘的紧张感。开篇“挖眼男童案”没有急着抛怪力乱神，而是从树枝取眼、眼球被丢弃、伯母晕血这些具体细节一步步排除人贩子、锁定熟人作案，推理链条虽不复杂，却把刑侦的土办法讲得有滋有味。 葛老、张怡寒与“我”三人组的配置也很讨喜：老专家镇场，女警强悍泼辣，新人在井底被吓得魂飞魄散，插科打诨中把恐怖感冲淡几分。作者是黑岩阅读网的高产写手，日更万字练出的节奏感在本书里很突出，几乎每章都以悬念或险情收尾，适合地铁通勤、睡前碎片时间连续读。需要提醒的是，本书文字直白、描写偏血腥，后期剧情为了拖长篇幅有明显注水，口碑两极。把它当成解压的刑侦爽文来读，收获会比当严肃推理作品更多。
Guizhou People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher based in Guizhou, with publishing directions covering architecture, foreign literature, Eastern philosophy and history. Its library currently holds 232 titles, including representative works such as Liang Sicheng's A History of Chinese Architecture, Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, The Old Capital, The Izu Dancer and Thousand Cranes, Mou Zongsan's Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy, Jiang Tingfu's Modern Chinese History and Rashomon. Its author resources span architecture, foreign literature and philosophical studies. These titles show that the press both introduces foreign literary classics, including Japanese literature, and continues to publish academic and general-interest works on Chinese architectural history, Chinese philosophy and modern history, reflecting a publishing profile that balances Chinese and foreign works and combines classics with accessible reading. Public information on its fuller publishing history and key series is limited, so no speculation is offered here.
《悬案组》的作者是谁？
作者笔名独孤求剩，本名宋春波，1984年生，湖南湘西永顺人，湖南省作家协会会员、湖南省网络作家协会理事，另有《农民特工》《武神傲天》《我的大姐大》等作品。
这本书是真实案件改编的吗？
有真实案件的影子。作者参考了2013年“挖眼男童案”“湖南杀人烹尸案”等社会案件作为素材，但书中人物、情节与具体细节均为虚构加工，不能与真实案件一一对应。
《悬案组》有实体书吗？
有。实体书由贵州人民出版社于2017年4月出版，ISBN 978-7-221-12598-9，约490千字，16开，定价45元。实体版篇幅小于网络连载版。
书里的“悬案组”是什么机构？
小说设定中，悬案侦查组是省厅设立的部门，专门接手全省范围内重案组侦破不了的、已被定性为“悬案”的案件，与常规重案组分工不同。
这本书适合当作推理小说入门吗？
可以作为了解国内网络悬疑文风的入门读物，但它偏重情节刺激和爽感，推理严谨度有限，也不宜作为学习刑侦知识的材料。若想读逻辑缜密的推理，建议另选作品。
