The Shadow Witness

In the icy border town of New Albion, a destitute man murders and impersonates a wealthy merchant, only to find himself trapped in a federal drug trafficking trial where a single expert’s testimony on “typical knowledge” threatens to unravel the meticulously constructed architecture of his new life. A Shuang Xuetao-inspired literary thriller about the cold precision of identity theft and the inescapable weight of the soul.