Trope: crime drama

A Break in the Clouds

破云 (Po Yun)

Huai Shang

A detective investigating a frozen corpse is assigned a consultant who survived the drug raid that killed his whole team.

A Man Who Never Says No

Emi Mitsuki

Hotel concierge Ritsu Shiraishi helps private detective Kurose for his own reasons. Then Kurose finds him in a case file.

Crystal Harem

Shinano Oumi

A detective on a murder case has his badge lifted, along with a kiss, by a beautiful pickpocket.

Dead Or Alive

IAGO

A bounty hunter's final catch swears he is innocent, and bets a million on proving it.

Dogs of Tosca

トスカの狗 (Tosca no Inu)

Micro Noici

When two yakuza clans come close to war, one leader offers himself to keep the peace.

FAKE

Sanami Matoh

Detective Randy 'Ryo' Maclean joins the NYPD's 27th precinct and is partnered with the brash Dee Latener.

Forced Unlocking

强制解锁 (Qiangzhi Jiesuo)

Agui

A celebrated young businessman who secretly runs his planet's largest criminal empire witnesses a murder.

Fourth Generation Head: Tatsuyuki Oyamato

四代目・大和辰之 (Yondaime Ooyamato Tatsuyuki)

Scarlet Beriko

A playboy yakuza heir who wants no part of the family business is busy questioning his sexuality when trouble finds him.

Gentle Treatment

Tae Xu wants revenge on Charles Duan, the rival who never stops needling him. Wanting Charles gets in the way.

Hands Up!

404, 603

Seven short stories, each built around a crime and the attraction that comes with it.

Hunt for the Leviathan

吞海 (Tun Hai)

Huai Shang

A guarded new officer and the sergeant who distrusts him are drawn into a string of crimes tied to a dark web marketplace.

Jealousy

ジェラシー (Jealousy)

Scarlet Beriko

A sly young man talks his way into the life of a yakuza boss and will not be shaken off.

Legs That Won't Walk

black apricot

A retired boxer inherits his father's debt, and the dangerous man collecting it offers him a way to work it off.

Miotsukushi: Backdoor Channels

澪つくし (Mio Tsukushi)

Yuzuha Ougi

A hacker helps a member of parliament catch a spy and names a price that is not money.

New York, New York

ニューヨーク・ニューヨーク (New York, New York)

Marimo Ragawa

A closeted New York cop falls for a man he meets at a bar and has to stop hiding.

No Reason

Salty

A gang boss takes a pretty new recruit to bed, and a year later the man vanishes with only a cryptic goodbye.

Obsessed

着魔 (Zhao Mo)

Wu Chen Shui

A Hong Kong inspector investigating a teacher's murder is drawn to a fragile-looking student at the center of the case.

One-way Romance

TESIK

Chasing a scoop on a conglomerate's mafia ties, a reporter gets entangled with the mafia boss himself.

OOTD: A Poisoning Love

YP

A police officer accidentally feeds his partner and longtime crush donuts laced with the drug they are investigating.

Pathological Lovers

不健全关系 (Bu Jianquan Guanxi)

story Qi Yan

A detective captain refuses to give up on his partner, an occult specialist left mute and unresponsive.

Penthouse XXX

Bacong

A contract killer swears off men, then moves into a penthouse owned by a rich heir with killer looks.

Psycho

疯子 (Fengzi)

Xiao Yaozi

A college student agrees to trade murders with a stranger called Hare, and becomes the object of Hare's obsession.

Robin in the Veil of Night

Komadori wa, Yoru no Tobari

Fumi Tsuyuhisa

A police officer and his folklorist brother look into a cult in a snowbound village and are drawn into its rituals.

Roses and Champagne

장미와 샴페인

ZIG (novel)

Civil rights lawyer Lee-Won Jeong suspects the Russian mob is rigging his client's case, and draws the attention of its heir, Caesar Sergeev.

Stigmata: Love Bites

Stigmata: Aikon

Hidebu Takahashi

A homicide officer feels murder victims' last thoughts as wounds on his own body, and his partner is the one person he cannot read.

The Evolution of Species

AshK, 490, Harusari

A freelancer who takes any job, legal or not, stumbles into a criminal network and needs a well-connected alpha to get out.

The Killer of Killers

杀青 (Sha Qing)

Wu Yi (T. X. Brooks)

An FBI agent who hunts serial killers is unknowingly living with the vigilante who keeps getting to them first.

The Melancholic Conman

huhgun, Nanna, Chepali

A fixer who helped a mob boss's lover run off with his money flees to Seoul, straight into the path of a rival mobster.

The Stray Cat's Cheat

UNOHANA

Private detective Ousuke opens his door to Yaichi, an old friend who has left the yakuza with a strange new power.

The Wizard

巫者 (Wu Zhe)

Shi Wu

A young man who confessed to killing a dozen relatives in one night is released to help solve murders that look supernatural.

Touch Within the Abyss

Moyori Mori

A hitman meets again the blind young man who once took his shaking hand at the scene of his worst failure.

Un-re-write

Yuzu Marita

A police officer and a private eye meet again, with old feelings still smouldering between them.

Wet Sand

웻샌드

story & art: DOYAK

Ian wants out of the gang life, but his on-and-off partner TJ won't let go, and a photographer named Jo has just walked in.

Wine and Gun

酒与枪 (Jiu Yu Qiang)

Mengye Mengye

A forensic pathologist with a murderous hobby has his chosen victim stolen by a rival killer, and takes it personally.