The police searched for a missing child, and their investigation led them to a gruesome discovery: a dead dog with traces of human blood. Though the officers quickly focused on the child's nanny, Balthazar arrived at a different conclusion.

Dust motes danced in the single shaft of light, illuminating a scene frozen in time. Within the crumbling edifice, three figures lay intertwined, relics of a bygone era. They were echoes of the Middle Ages, their forms softened by centuries…

A remote mountain village became the unlikely stage for a brutal act. A husband and wife were victims of a knife attack, the wounds chillingly familiar – the signature of a serial killer believed to be incarcerated. The incident cast a long…

The discovery of a woman hanging from the bridge seemed, at first glance, a simple case of suicide. Yet, Balthazar found the detail unsettling; another person had died in the exact same manner days before, after meeting someone through an o…

After examining the body, I determined the victim had succumbed to a rapidly progressing form of the plague. I locked myself within the abandoned toy store, the silence amplifying the grim realization of what I had witnessed.

Bach arrived at the crime scene, his car a battered relic with shattered windows and a trunk brimming with snakes.

Bach arrived at the crime scene, his car a wreck – shattered windows, empty and forlorn. The trunk, however, held a more unsettling cargo: a writhing mass of snakes.

In the chilling aftermath of Lise’s murder, a suspect is finally apprehended. But the grim discovery reveals a horrifying truth: the individual in custody has been deceased for a decade, a mere phantom masking a far more sinister reality. T…

Balthazar wrestled with a growing unease. The threat against Lise had cast a long shadow, and now he feared the reach of that darkness might ensnare Maya. He couldn't shake the feeling that his new love was in peril. Meanwhile, Bach receive…

A video arrived for Lise's killer, a gruesome testament to his crime. The sender was a disturbed man, clad in a woman’s bloodied scalp, who walked into the police station. For him, drugs were a necessary oblivion against the pain of that fi…