When the sun sets in the city of Manila, don't you dare make a wrong turn and end up in that dimly-lit side of the metro, where aswang run the most-wanted kidnapping rings, where kapre are the kingpins of crime, and engkantos slip through the cracks and steal your most precious possessions. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese. Trese: Murder On Balete Drive contains the following: Case 1: At the Intersection of Balete and 13th Street Case 2: Rules of the Race Case 3: The Tragic Case of Dr. Burgos Case 4: Our Secret Constellation

When dusk arrives in the city of Manila, that's when you become the most likely prey of the criminal underworld. Kidnappers and thieves will be the least of your worries. Beware the criminals that can't be bound with handcuffs nor harmed with bullets. Beware the ones that crave for your blood, those who hold your heart ransom, and the ones that come to steal your soul. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese.

12 midnight at Metro Manila. Try to remain calm if you suddenly spot a tikbalang speeding down EDSA or a manananggal swooping across the Makati skyline. While partying at the Fort, never ever let the enkanto at the bar buy you a drink. Yet, there are deadlier things than walk the streets of this city. One of them now demands blood and sacrifice. When crime takes a turn for a weird, the police call Trese.

Black and white comic paperback with dust jacket,Volume 4

In a city where the aswang control everything that is illegal and where ancient gods seek to control everything else, enforcing the law can be a very difficult task. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police normally call Alexandra Trese. Lately, it seems like others have been taking that call. A mysterious racer has been breaking the speed limit, running after and capturing criminals. A masked giant has been demolishing drug dens and breaking up gangs. Trese must confront these supernatural crime-fighters and bring order back to the city, before the underworld attempts to seek balance in its own way.

The unceasing rain muffles the screams of the victims being pulled down, down into the murky flood waters. In the places too high to be reached by the flood, the party continues for the privileged, who indulge in a new designer drug which grants them the supernatural abilities of enkanto and aswang. These are the murders and mysteries Alexandra Trese needs to solve as the tide continues to rise at the stroke of midnight.

All the train stations of the MRT are suddenly visited by ghosts of the brutally murdered. All except for the 13th station. There is a secret restaurant owned by an aswang chef, who serves the most unique people as one-of-a-kind dishes. An ancient chest containing an imprisoned entity has been unlocked. A 1,000 year old church hides a piece of Philippine history that has been erased from human memory. Only the shadows of these locations will serve as witnesses to the crimes and transgressions, When these mysteries become deadly and threatening, the authorities call the one named Trese.

In the city of Manila, there’s a secret race to find hidden objects of power and magical ingredients: A fallen star that can grant someone god-like powers A sword that can trap spirits and deliver a fiery curse A stone from a graveyard that can bring back the dead A gun that never runs out of bullets, as long as the target is guilty of a crime. In the past, these gifts were granted to deserving people who became agents of order. But lately, some of these weapons have been given to agents of chaos, who lurk in the shadows. When the supernatural world begins to threaten our world, that’s when the city needs Alexandra Trese.