Author Description

Sometimes justice punishes the innocent. If it were up to Magistrate Tao Jun he would solve every mystery with a sword and a fake name (and maybe a fancy silk robe). So when a missing person becomes a murder investigation, he's (happily) on the case. But all is not as it seems, and as the magistrate digs deeper, he finds an assassin trying to kill him, a trail of blood, a web of lies, and a conman wanted in two cities. And somehow, in the centre of all this deception, is a girl with a mysterious past... Well, getting shot at by archers is more fun than paperwork anyway. Set amid the Tales of the Swordsman and the Tales of the Jianghu series, this is a detective story with wuxia action (a futou-noir story, if you will). This story follows beloved (and totally corrupt) Magistrate Tao Jun and his dry and irreverent take on the jianghu and the bureaucracy of being a magistrate. If you like classic wuxia and detective stories, dust off your favorite sword (get rid of those blood stains, no one needs to see that), and head over to the magistrate’s office for The Touch of Murder.