The Killing Room

The new case: When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, Detective Li Yan from Beijing is sent to determine whether the bodies are connected to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will collaborate with Mei Ling, the deputy head of the Serious Crimes Division in Shanghai.

The new colleague: Mei Ling is an impressive woman, which does not go unnoticed by Li's fickle lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. However, when Campbell, vulnerable and still mourning the loss of her father, learns that the victims underwent live autopsies, she realizes that the case is bigger than her pride.

The killing room: Li, Campbell, and Mei Ling now enter the arena of a grotesque nemesis and open a door behind which each of their worst nightmares lies hidden.