Murder in the Past

by Cai Jun

This book tells a strange murder happening in the grocery opposite to Nanming High School and the only witness is a 13-year-old son of the dead person in a summer night with heavy downpour. Fifteen years later, the case has not yet been solved, and the police officer who was responsible for the case died in line of duty. In preparation for the funeral, the daughter of this dead police officer found the murder a strange purple scarf. How would she complete the last wish of his father? An interlinking murder, a social tragedy, and a pure but desperate love emerge.

299 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2011

About the author

Cai Jun has published a dozen books and is China's bestselling horror writer. He started his writing career at twenty-two and was quickly awarded the Bertelsmann People's Literature Award for New Writers. His novel 19th Floor of Hell won the Sina Literary Award and is one of three of Jun's novels to have been made into a feature film. Two of his books have been developed into television series, and his work has been translated into six languages