Dead Serious

Hikaru Chikumagawa is a private investigator. He has a fussy temperament and he is not good at communicating with others, but he is the fastest detective in the world. Ichika Sogawa is a normal university student. After her father's sudden death, she receives an inheritance of five trillion yen. She is also targeted by her relatives. Private Investigator Hikaru Chikumagawa tries to protect Ichika from harm.

This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the murder is connected with the victim's persistent effort for the removal of the University's quaestor because of the latter's strange machinations during the reconstruction of the University building. And they'll also want to know why the murderer took the great risk involved in killing the victim on the university soil. The search for the answer to the question who could wish the death of the peculiar but honest professor will take them farther than they have expected.

Elf detective and monster slayer Agnetha Deveaux puts her criminal knowledge and magical powers to use taking on foes from this world and beyond.

Toronto's homicide detectives, alcoholic Bill Pierce and trauma-scarred Cris Caetano, investigate city's criminal underbelly amidst its transformation in the 1980s, facing personal struggles while navigating the changing urban landscape.