For the first time in Russian - an international bestseller from the master of the Spanish historical novel. This time, the attention of Antonio Garrido, famous for the depth and thoroughness of his study of the material, turned to medieval China, where the famous Sun Ci, the founder of world forensic medicine, lived in the 13th century. The Body Reader won the Zaragoza International Prize, awarded for the best historical novel.

After the death of his grandfather, young Song Ci, a promising student at the capital's university and assistant to the respected Judge Feng, is forced to return with his father, a court official, from capital to his native village. But a chain of tragic accidents deprives him of shelter and drives him back to the big city. There the young man is forced to work as an assistant to a charlatan soothsayer - but soon word of his amazing ability to “read bodies” reaches the emperor himself. The Son of Heaven entrusts the young man with the investigation of a series of mysterious murders - an investigation on the results of which depends not only the life of Sun Ci and those dear to him, but also the fragile balance in the Celestial Empire...