The Year of Crimson Murders

National bestseller.
Based on real events.

No one could have imagined that the calm fishing village of Shu y d i l i a o would plunge into fear for an entire year. During that time, seven schoolchildren died under inexplicable circumstances. While the residents went mad from helplessness, unable to get the police to explain what was happening in any way, it was discovered that this was not an accident, but a series of murders. A woman named Chen Lin Shu fen became the prime suspect—she was detained and sentenced. But she never admitted her guilt and said not a word in response to the questions.

So who, and for what reason, took the lives of innocent children?

Yuesxue desperately tries to get to the bottom of it. She returns from the USA, where she studied at the FBI to become a profiler, and hopes to use her experience to uncover the truth. Her approach is unusual: instead of recording the case in text, she documents it with drawings. But the strangeness isn’t only in the method. Yuesxue is tormented by terrifying visions while awake—and the deeper she looks into the killer’s mutilated psyche, the more unbearable these images become. A crimson darkness thickens, and the road to the solution runs through her personal hell. Can her mind survive the next turn of the nightmare?