Murder, he wrote

How does a professor go about sketching the lead character of his crime thrillers? Xing Yi finds out. Xing Yi

Law and literature, two very different streams seem to converge in He Jiahong's writings. The 62-year-old is a well-known law professor at Renmin University of China, where he teaches criminal law at arguably the country's finest law school, with his focus being on evidence and investigation.

He has also written a series of crime thrillers in Chinese. Set in 1990s China, the series' protagonist is a lawyer, who solves some really strange cases like a detective.