As the archaeologist Yousef returns to Baghdad after years abroad, he soon finds himself embroiled in trouble after he kills the husband of his neighbor, Rahma, in self-defense. As Yousef and Rahma hide the body, they receive a threat from someone who has a video of the crime.
Andrey Viktorovich Izvorin is a very creative person. He draws comics and publishes them under the pseudonym Hunter, and the rest of the time he teaches history at a university and sincerely loves his subject. Izvarin came up with a theory according to which every unsolved crime, including if an innocent person was punished for it, inevitably repeats itself. The ability to draw and think with pictures, as well as knowledge of history, help him and investigator Anna Rybakova to follow the trail of the most unusual maniacs and solve the most complicated murders.
Thirteen bodies are unearthed in the mist-covered slopes of Jaffna Hills near Dehradun - victims of a killer who has been hunting in silence for seventeen years. As panic grips the city, SP Crime Vijay Kohli leads the investigation, but the case hits dangerously close to home.
A former outcast turned ghost banisher is forced to return to his hometown to confront a string of supernatural disturbances — only to uncover long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden. Rashid, a young traditional healer, comes home after the death of his mother. Meanwhile, Mira, the village doctor, stumbles upon a dark secret lurking within the community. Rashid and Mira join forces, convinced that the mysterious deaths of Laila and Rashid’s mother are somehow connected. But someone in the village is protecting the powerful spirits that roam among them.