The Ledger's Lie

In the tenth year of Kaiyuan, an Anyi County land dispute conceals a far darker crime. A once-perfect adopted daughter reveals a chilling sociopathy, manipulating ancient Tang archives to rewrite memories. Her adoptive father, a weary local clerk, must navigate a labyrinth of corrupt bureaucracy and personal horror to bury her monstrous acts, only to realize that in the ledgers of history, truth warps faster than it fades. A psychological thriller in the vein of Henning Mankell.