LEI MI

Translated from Chinese, this criminal psychological thriller delves into the psychological experiments in behavior and raises some good ethical questions while still delivering a tightly complex labyrinthine murder mystery.

When a young man professing to be an ex-student of a professor shows up at her house with a bouquet of flowers and fatally stabs her, taking her young daughter hostage, it's up to Fang Mu, a police officer and profiler, to negotiate the hostage release and prevent the snipers from killing the young man. When this young man escapes from police custody following his trial, the hunt for the fugitive leads to a multi-vehicle collision resulting in the near death of a motorcycle cop.

When additional murders are committed soon after, there seems to be a ritualistic element to the way the victims are placed, and Fang Mu considers if there's an organization behind the crimes and what part, if any, the young fugitive has to play in it.

When psychological experiments result in unexpected deviant behavior, what means will the victims take to resolve their feelings of guilt?

Seemingly disjointed in the first couple of chapters, this thriller then pull all the seemingly disparate pieces together very skillfully, with multiple surprising and at times shocking twists, before ending on a bit of a cliff hanger, which means there will be another in this series to look forward to.… (mere)