6 parts Complete MatureEmpire's Detective is a dark comedy mystery thriller that delves into the twisted underbelly of power, politics, and secrets, through the sharp eyes and sharper tongue of Peter Holp, a 26-year-old detective in the Rewin Empire's most feared investigative agency-the Imperial Public Investigation Department, or IPID.
Holp serves in the 4th Division, the branch of IPID tasked with handling the cases no other agency dares touch. The City Police Departments are often too overwhelmed or too incompetent; the Regional Police are too constrained by local power structures. When a case becomes unsolvable, explosive, or politically radioactive, it lands on IPID's desk-and more often than not, in Peter Holp's lap.
IPID is not merely a law enforcement unit. It is a sovereign investigative power in its own right, created to operate above the influence of political factions, noble houses, and even the military. Its jurisdiction spans the entire Rewin Empire, and its reach includes everyone-from corrupt merchants to ministers of state, from rogue generals to members of the imperial bloodline.
Uniquely, IPID reports to three figures of imperial authority: the Crown Prince, the Prime Minister, and the Emperor himself. This triad of oversight exists to ensure balance; if one of them becomes the subject of a criminal investigation, the department can report directly to the others. It is a system designed not out of trust, but out of profound distrust-ensuring that no one in the Empire, not even its rulers, is above the law. In theory.
In practice, Peter Holp finds himself constantly walking a razor's edge between truth and survival. Young yet jaded, brilliant yet insubordinate, Holp is known for his deadpan humor, his disregard for bureaucratic nonsense, and his relentless pursuit of the truth. Each case he takes pulls him deeper into the Empire's rotting core-conspiracies involving aristocratic cults, assassination plots disguised as accidents, and decades-old crimes buried.