Deceptions Ⅰ

By 張立言, LI YEN CHANG, CHANG LI YEN

Product Description

Deceptions is a gripping collection of nine psychological crime stories that peel back the layers of one of the most pervasive threats in modern society-fraud. Inspired by real cases and grounded in deep social observation, the book reveals how ordinary people are drawn step-by-step into traps engineered through fear, trust, desire, loneliness, and the quiet fractures hidden in daily life.

Each story follows a different character facing a different kind of deception: a business owner desperate to protect his reputation, a parent manipulated through love for a child, a lonely heart searching for connection, a family fighting stigma, or an elder trying to maintain dignity. Their experiences expose the emotional battlefield behind every scam, showing that victims are not "foolish"-they are human.

What sets this book apart is its dual perspective. While portraying the victims' psychological descent, it also brings readers inside the dark machinery of fraud: the scripted phone rooms, the high-pressure recruitment, the criminals who move between being victims and perpetrators, and the cold logic of profit that drives the system. Through these mirrors, Nine Deceptions unveils the unsettling truth that fraud is not a single crime, but an industry built on exploiting human vulnerability.

Across nine interconnected themes-fear, trust, shame, desire, duty, hope, regret, silence, and awakening-the book shows how deception grows in the gaps between people: between spouses, between parents and children, between citizens and institutions, between who we think we are and who we fear becoming.

Suspenseful yet deeply empathetic, Nine Deceptions is more than a crime anthology. It is a reflection on modern isolation, psychological manipulation, and the hidden struggles that push people toward silence. For readers of true crime, psychological thrillers, or socially conscious fiction, this collection offers both emotional tension and poignant insight.

In a world where scams evolve faster than awareness, these stories remind us:
Fraud is not about gullibility-it is about timing, pressure, fear, and the fragile moments no one talks about.
And sometimes, the most devastating crimes are the ones that never spill a drop of blood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2JGKHMM
• ISBN13: 9798274721738
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"