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The guilty secret: Chinese crime writer arrested for four cold-case murders

Liu Yongbiao had talked of plans for book about killer author who evades capture but police say he is now a suspect in multiple decades-old murders
Huzhou, the scene of the 1995 murders for which author Liu Yongbiao has been arrested. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

In the introduction to his novel The Guilty Secret, Chinese writer Liu Yongbiao revealed he had already started work on a follow-up he hoped would prove a literary sensation: a suspense-filled, cold-case detective drama about a ravishing female author who evades capture despite committing a string of grisly murders.

Liu Yongbaio’s novel.
Liu Yongbaio’s novel.

He would call it The Beautiful Writer who

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