After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
Shioriko Shinokawa is the proprietor of Biblia Antiquarian Bookshop, her sidekick Daisuke Goura, her lanky gofer and protector, has trouble reading books; they make him dizzy. Shioriko is demure and introverted, an expert on vintage books, a great storyteller, and of course, a lover of books; she also has amazing powers of logical deduction, and can solve big mysteries from the smallest of clues. The unlikely pair join forces to unravel secrets and hidden meanings to help people looking for answers, and the true answers are never what they expect.
The village maniac Timofey from the village of Sosnovka is very fond of classical literature. So much so that he stages his murders based on the works of Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and other book classics, but the local police cannot understand this. Olga, the investigator, becomes a ray of light in the dark kingdom for Timofey, who comes to Sosnovka from the city and immediately notices the literary background of the crimes. But the authorities do not want to listen to her guesses.
Khunpol, a young archaeologist, and descendant of Khunphaen, goes in search of his missing grandfather. He ends up entering the village and meets Molin. Together, alongside some friends, they embark on an adventure through the mystical forest full of supernatural beings and soon they discover the secrets of the past that unites them.
An old mansion has a history. Something terrible happens when people mess with a statue. This causes a shock. People get scared. They start finding out hidden secrets and lies. When they finally know the truth, will it make things better or make things worse forever?
Nakano Hitomi is an ordinary employee who works for the Metropolitan Police Department’s General Affairs Section. Her job is to check the receipts for investigation expenses that the detectives pay in advance, but she is extremely sharp in detecting cases because she was raised by her father, who is a swindler.
When serial killings and injuries occur, she is also the first to realise that the victims' names are linked to a word game in which one victim’s name contains the last character of the name of the previous victim. Hitomi uses detective Togawa of the First Investigative Division, whom she became acquainted with after finding discrepancies in his receipts and scheming lawyer Shirai Shinnosuke who works his way into the favour of victims to find work that pays well, to get close to the truth of the case.
A group of people live in an old house filled with secrets and mysteries. When their son marries a girl named Marwa, strange things begin to happen, and family relationships start to change, leading to tension and conflict. It soon becomes clear that Marwa is not what she seems, and that behind her calm demeanor lies a strange force seeking to destroy the family from within.
When a family gets together to divide their inheritance after their father’s death, a child gets kidnaped and the ransom asked is equal to the sum of their inheritance. The crisis unearths shadowy secrets, simmering conflicts, and shocking truths which were buried behind the family’s public image.