Burning Identity

English information

• Title: Burning Identity
• Rights available: Translation・Film/TV・Audio
• Author: A.Z.
• Publisher: Beguiling Creative Co., Ltd. (Taiwan); Series: CRIMYSTERY COLLECTION 17
• Published: November 2026; 256 pages (print); ISBN 978-626-7750-95-7 (print), 978-626-7750-93-3 (EPUB)
• Genre: contemporary crime fiction / police procedural with a magician sleuth
• Logline: In an old wet market in Kaohsiung, a shop selling joss paper becomes a crime scene; a lawyer-turned-rookie cop hires a sharp-tongued magician by the day, starting with the woman everyone in the market calls a saint.
• Synopsis (no spoilers): Axiang ran the joss-paper shop at Xijia Market and was known as its unofficial caretaker: she fed poor students, helped old stalls apply for subsidies, and withdrew from a neighborhood election on the night she was about to win. After a death in the shop, Li Boya, a former partner at a well-known law firm now one year into police work, finds the till nearly empty, a life-insurance payout gone, and three children abroad who have not come home in over twenty years. His old partner, magician Hu Ziqi, offers his help for 1,200 NT dollars a day, and signs a contract that pays only after the case is closed.