Silent Reading by Priest, translated by E. Danglars

There's now a complete translation of Priest's Silent Reading (默读 | Mò Dú), find it here. (I'm in no way affiliated, just sharing the link.)

All five book and the epilogue are there for our our reading pleasure and are available as PDF/EPUB/MOBI formats for download. I'm reading the MOBI files on my phone in ReadEra, which is a completely free (no ads!) android app.

I'm only five chapters in and, so far, I'm really enjoying this novel. Here is the summary from novelupdates:

Childhood, upbringing, family background, social relations, traumatic experiences…

We keep reviewing and seeking out the motives of criminals, exploring the subtlest emotions driving them. It’s not to put ourselves in their shoes and sympathize, or even forgive them; it’s not to find some reasons to exculpate their crimes; it’s not to kneel down before the so-called “complexity of human nature”; nor to introspect social conflicts, much less to alienate ourselves into monsters.

We just want to have a fair trial – for ourselves and for those who still have hope for the world.

And here is cocopines's Mo Du agenda. (And a link to the tweet if anyone wants to retweet it.) It includes details about the plot, the setting and the characters and lists warnings. Please do take note of the warnings—being a crime/thriller novel there's some heavier stuff.

P.S. props to E. Danglars for opting to use "Lao-ge" instead of "Old Bro."