The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites.
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present.
Reeta Sanyal lands the case of a lifetime when a guilty killer narrates a ‘perfect murder’ story. In the trial for truth, she must brave against the big guns.
Pan, a desolate plastic surgeon, lived a repetitive and boring life every day until a conspiracy happened. He woke up in an abandoned factory, and found that someone had replaced his identity with a face exactly like him. His world has been completely overturned and left in a perilous situation. Can he overcome the difficulties and peel away the truth? How would he regain his identity?
A story exploring the Chinese legal system follows a man who is determined to uncover the mystery behind his parents' deaths.
Orphaned and homeless after the death of his parents, a young Tang Ji Bai gets adopted by Dong Fang Huo. Years later, Tang Ji Bai grows up to be a successful legal professor while Dong Fang Zhi has become an ace lawyer.
Tang Ji Bai becomes embroiled in a case that lands him in prison. Even though he acts uncharacteristically towards her, Dong Fang Zhi is determined to help Ji Bai clear his name. Meanwhile, Ma Ze'an who is the young owner of Tian Jin Law Firm becomes attracted to Dong Fang Zhi and starts to boldly pursue her. With mysteries piling and a conspiracy to solve, Tang Ji Bai and Dong Fang Zhi find themselves occasionally at odds, yet their relationship only grows stronger over time.
Tiaoleng, a successful businessman in Phuket, was murdered. His grandson Chalumpol must find out the truth, meanwhile he starts to have feelings for Nampueng, who he met before but now she comes with a new status, his young step grandma.
When a prominent businessman is found murdered, an ambitious newspaper reporter and a local police inspector will uncover a bizarre web of small-town corruption, violence and dark secrets.
County magistrate Su Wuming is drawn into a deadly series of kidnappings linked to a decades-old murder case. Trapped in a sinister underground replica of the “Nine-Tier Tower” alongside the original judge, he must unravel twisted testimonies, confront a pair of cunning twins, and navigate a string of murders to uncover the truth—facing life-or-death choices at every turn.
Prize winning journalist, Michiko Takamine receives an autobiographical manuscript from recent suicide victim Sakiko, the daughter of imprisoned serial killer Fujiko. Before publishing the manuscript, Michiko seeks to interview Fujiko in prison to determine its validity. This story of murder and intrigue goes much deeper then Michiko envisioned and has a unique family twist.
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.