Questa serie si immerge nel lato oscuro di Tokyo, seguendo un detective solitario dal passato tormentato mentre affronta i crimini più inquietanti della città. Ogni caso sfuma il confine tra realtà brutale e orrore ritualistico, accennando spesso a influenze antiche o occulte. Navigando tra indagini insidiose e i propri demoni interiori, il detective scopre segreti che sfidano la natura stessa della giustizia e dell'umanità.
Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo's homicide department, is assigned a new partner, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai and a secondhand case. The case is complicated - a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web and painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom ceiling before he left in broad daylight.
Harrowing and gripping. An astute police procedural . . . Switching between LA, Mexico and Tokyo both Iwata's present and past are cleverly interwoven in a truly heart-rending climax Daily Express
With just weeks to go before the Olympics and the world's eyes firmly fixed on Tokyo the body of young British student, Skye Mackintosh, is discovered in a love hotel. Tokyo's Homicide Department enlists the help of Kosuke Iwata. But it isn't long before he discovers the darkness in the neon drenched streets as Skye, like so many others, had her own secrets. Lies and murder haunt a city where old ghosts and new whisper from its darkest of corners and the truth is always just out of sight. . .