Mysterious Plot

26 books

The Twelve Heavenly Secrets cover
The Twelve Heavenly Secrets Mo Feng The Twelve Heavenly Secrets is a suspense-adventure novel by Mo Feng, narrated in the first person. The protagonist, Zhang Xiaochuan, was once a polic…
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Seven Days to Live Zilai Houye Seven Days as a Ghost is a long supernatural suspense novel by the web author Zilai Houye. Comprising five volumes and roughly three hundred and twent…
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Red Dragon Miao Di Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House; Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2018 Red Dragon is the first volume of scholar and novelist Miao Di's "Tianshun Trilogy," a long historical mystery novel set against the Ming dynasty's "D…
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Paranormal Police Cases Sun Mingyuan Paranormal Police Cases (some editions titled Even Cops Meet Ghosts: Paranormal Police Cases) is a long web novel by Sun Mingyuan, belonging to the sc…
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The Strain: The Fall Guillermo del Toro / Chuck Hogan Lijiang Publishing House · 2014 The Strain: The Fall is the second book of the Strain trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, originally published in English as The Fall, pick…
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Rating 3.7
The Blind Man and the Dog Shuitian Yise Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Blind Man and the Dog is a fair-play mystery novel by the crime writer Shui Tian Yise and the second book in the "Detective Du" series. The story …
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Rating 4.8
The Straw House Cao Wenxuan Tiantian Publishing House · 2011 The Straw House is Cao Wenxuan's representative children's novel. Set in Yau Ma Tei, a riverside village in the Jiangnan water country, it follows six…
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National Action Cheng Lin Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 National Action is a novel by the police writer Cheng Lin, published by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House in October 2017. The novel…
Batman: Gotham Knights Vol. 55 cover
Batman: Gotham Knights Vol. 55 A.J. Lieberman · 2004 This is issue No. 55 of the Batman: Gotham Knights series, titled "Pushback, Book Six," the closing chapter of the "Hush Returns" storyline (issues 50…
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Rating 4.1
The Jianghu of the I Ching Xiong Yi Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2015 The I Ching has long been known as bewildering and obscure—a classic said to "predict the future," passed down from the pre-Qin era to today, interpre…
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The Werewolf Transformation: The Three Odd Detectives of Chang'an Dugu Menxia Yilin Press · 2016 The Werewolf Mutation is the third installment in the Late Tang Dynasty detective series The Three Odd Investigators of Chang'an by Dugu Menxia. Set a…
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The Seal of Heaven 裴魁山 Yilin Press · 2015 History graduate student Zhou Hao only meant to accompany his advisor Ding Jingzhi to a banquet, yet in social settings at home and abroad he suddenly…
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An Introduction to the Four Great Classical Novels (4-Book Set) 苗怀明 / Wei Wenzhe / Xiao Xiangkai / 赵兴勤 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2012 An Introduction to the Four Great Classical Novels is a general-readership guide to classical Chinese fiction, comprising four volumes: Talking About …
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The Unrequited Princess Dan Ying Chongqing Publishing House · 2009 The Fengxi Empire had suffered years of drought when a stone tablet descended from the heavens, bearing a prophecy: "Win Xiangsi and the glazed pearl,…
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The Water Ballad Cipher Ansel Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House · 2008 The Water Ballad Cipher is a young-adult fantasy novel by Anser (real name Yang Yang), a writer born in the 1990s; Hunan Juvenile and Children's Publi…
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Invincible Vol. 15 Robert Kirkman / Ryan Oatley / Corey Walker This is Volume 15 of the Invincible series, continuing the timeline after the Viltrum War. The original collection gathers issues #85–90 of the main I…
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Rating 4.2
The Invisible Escape 张海帆 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2008 In 1945, just after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chongqing was still under Kuomintang rule. The Communist underground intelligence …
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Rating 3.3
Strange Detective Cases of the Republic of China (Complete Two Volumes) 王承苦 · 2025 [Republican-era suspense + dual protagonists + serial cases + double alibis + suicide-style murder] Handsome detective Klein, an expert in criminal ps…
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Rating 3.6
Cool Forensic Examiner Series 5: The Insect House Ma Yumo 21st Century Publishing House · 2025 [Honkaku mystery + suspense + cold case reopened + family feud + revenge] Gu Ping, a cool-headed, highly intelligent eccentric forensic examiner; Shen…
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Rating 3.5
The Legend of Du Yifei (03): Hero's Dream Xi Mendin (Wang Yu) · 2025 The great hero Yan Beihan and Shi Zhongsheng kill Zhou Qianfeng, whose chivalrous reputation fills the martial world. But then Shi Zhongsheng dies und…