Masked Night is the fourth installment of Keigo Higashino's masked series. The first three films are masked night, masked hotel and masked villa. It is also the third case of police officer Xintian, and Xintian has finally formed its own series.

We know that there are two other famous series in Keigo Higashino:

One is Kaga Koichiro, a Japanese bridge policeman.

The other is detective Galileo Yukawa.

Kaga, a former teacher, is a master of kendo. He likes to get close to the truth by visiting and investigating people and places related to the case. He is more concerned about the people who are traumatized by the case than the case itself. He is kind, easy to be trusted and exudes the brilliance of human nature.

As a professor of physics at the university, Yukawa can always find a breakthrough in the case through scientific physical knowledge. He is rigorous, wise and logical, and shines with knowledge.

And Xintian is more like an ordinary policeman. He is alert and good at reasoning, and he often encounters areas he doesn't understand and is accused of doing something wrong. As ordinary and real as everyone around us.

Masked Night is a new combination of Xintian and Shangmei, the "new beauty CP".

Shangmei on the mountain side also kept her constant vigilance and patience, and showed an excellent hotel employee to the fullest.

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The Ma Lian Police Department received an anonymous report that there might be a female body in the apartment. The police quickly launched an investigation and found that both the deceased and Chun Chun were electrocuted. There are many Lori costumes in the wardrobe that don't conform to the dressing style of the deceased. The deceased is pregnant.

Just when the police were at their wits' end, they received an anonymous tip-off letter from an informant, and the murderer would appear at the New Year's masked ball at the Cotesia Hotel in Tokyo.

As a result, Xintian, who once had undercover experience in the Cotesia Hotel, was recalled for leave.

The police deployed personnel in the hotel, waiting for the murderer to appear.

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Xintian has been arranged to receive guests at the front desk, and Shangmei has been transferred to the concierge department to solve the guests' requirements.

By comparing the surveillance video of the deceased's workplace with the guests staying in the hotel, the police quickly found a man with a golf bag, but his name tag was torn off in the surveillance video.

Xintian believes that this person must be related to the deceased and regards him as the key monitoring object.

The police officer in charge of the peripheral investigation can find that this case is very similar to a murder case three and a half years ago.

After exchanging information with Shi Neng, Xintian put forward a bold idea. The informant didn't tell the police directly because he actually made a deal with the murderer. After the transaction was completed, he got away and the murderer was brought to justice.

And this man is the middleman of the transaction!

After being confirmed, the police made a series of arrangements, waiting to fight to the death with the murderer.

Masked night is coming.

But what Xintian didn't know was that the murderer recognized Xintian's police status on the first day of staying in the hotel, and the whole police station fell into the trap of the murderer. ......

On the night of masked night, the dangerous magic hand attacked Shangmei in the church. ......

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Hotel guests are varied, and the requirements are also strange:

Husband, with his wife and children, lived with his lover in a hotel where he often cheated, but unexpectedly met his lover. Before the masked night, he damaged his car and fled the hotel.

I hope to propose to my girlfriend in a romantic and luxurious way and ask the hotel for help, but the hotel has received a request from the married person, hoping to refuse to propose without losing dignity.

After the proposal was rejected, the man quickly moved on, hoping to get help from the hotel and have dinner with a strange woman.

Checking in under a pseudonym, but paying with a real-name credit card, obviously living alone, but trying to create a beautiful woman who lives in a hotel with her husband.

In the words of Yuan, the receptionist, "Every guest who stays in the hotel has a mask and plays his own role." However, under these masks, there are stories full of emotion, sadness or sin.

Taking Xintian and Shangmei as the fulcrum, connecting these people in series and filling in the details in the book shows us a full and vivid life.

In this impetuous society, in the face of complex interpersonal relationships, we don't show people with masks. Generally speaking, "everyone is talking nonsense, which is a ghost story". Perhaps only when you are alone and tortured by your heart, will you tear off your mask and show your true face of fatigue.

It is inevitable that we cry and laugh, but we should keep our inner selves and not be swallowed up by the shadow of this mask.

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In addition to the case itself, most readers are more concerned about the fate and development of Xintian and Shangmei, the "new beauty CP".

At the last dinner of "Masked Hotel", I believe many readers think that these two extremely well-matched chivalrous couples will come together. But at the beginning of Masked Night, we found that the two of them had not contacted each other for several years. Therefore, they all spit out that Teacher Dongye's concept of love is incorrect.

Shangmei is going to work in the Los Angeles branch, which is also a suspense left by Teacher Dongye. Maybe in the next case, we will see the happy ending of Xintian and Shangmei. Send a song "Cows and Dogs Will Love" here to Xintian, and also to Dongye (Korean song, it is recommended to listen to the Chinese lyrics! )