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DEATH NOTICE is a fast-paced and compelling police procedural with one major flaw: it relies so heavily on the genre‘s tropes that anyone who‘s read a few of these can use their knowledge of crime fiction, not the clues Zhou plants along the way, to solve the mystery. Despite that, I did enjoy seeing this familiar setup in a Chinese context.
Be aware it‘s a series opener, so there‘re dangling threads.