Japanese Crime

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South “His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty...

From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he...

An artfully twisty psychological mystery from Seichō Matsumoto, hailed as “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times), exploring the corrosive power of jealousy, guilt, and doubt While on an important business trip, Tsuneo Asai receives word that his wife, Eiko, has died suddenly of a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers, a captivating novel about love lost—and the weight of regret What if I’d never gotten into that car? What if I’d pulled out of the driveway five minutes earlier, or ten minutes later? Three years ago, Wolo’s pregnant wife...

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on 10 of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

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From the award-winning film director and New York Times bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World, a dark, introspective novel about a woman and a horse. A horse stood on the highway. Yuko Setoguchi, a lonely clerk at a shipyard whose life has passed her by, is making her regular...

革命の嵐にゆれるパリを舞台に 華麗な登場人物を巻き込んで起こる 恐怖の連続殺人事件。王一家の逃亡と処刑、王妃（ダイヤ）の首飾りの謎 ―ロマンの香り豊かな歴史絵巻と 意外な犯人を追い詰める 名探偵の推理が交錯する 異色の長編ミステリ。

In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are killed. At the very onset of the atrocities, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp Sindberg, opens the factory gates and welcomes in 10,000 Chinese civilians to safety. He becomes an Asian equivalent of Oskar Schindler, the savior of Jews in the Holocaust.

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Haunting and evocative, brutal and...

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue leads him to a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface.

A cross-border romance like no other! Zoya, a twenty-five-year-old Pakistani pop star, meets emerging Indian cricketer Kabeer while he is on tour in the country to play a match to promote Indo-Pak friendship. One thing leads to another and soon Kabeer and Zoya are inseparable. As their love for...

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India...

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

大ベストセラー「道警」シリーズ待望の第2シーズン開幕!!!あの佐伯宏一が戻ってきた。札幌大通署ではなく、函館方面本部捜査課に、警部として――。(創立30周年記念作品)厚真で強盗殺人事件を起こした犯人の一人が札幌ジャズバー「ブラックバード」に立てこもり、機動捜査隊の津久井に発砲した事件から約一年。

夏休み。鉄道好きで〈スーパーおおぞら〉に憧れる僕は、ある日出会った男性に小樽の鉄道博物館へ連れて行ってもらえることに。最高の夏になると信じていたのに、こんな大ごとになるなんて──。生活安全課の小島百合は、老舗店で万引きした男子小学生を補導した。署に連れて行くも少年に逃げられてしまう。一方、刑事課の佐伯宏一は園芸店窃盗犯を追っていた。

札幌市内のアパートで、女性の変死体が発見された。遺体は北海道警察本部生活安全部の水村朝美巡査と判明。容疑者には交際相手で同じ本部に所属する津久井巡査部長が浮かぶ。やがて津久井に対する射殺命令までが出た。捜査から外された所轄署の佐伯警部補は、かつておとり捜査で組んだことのある津久井の潔白を証明するため有志たちと極秘裏に捜査を始めるが……。

大ベストセラー道警シリーズ、第1シーズン完!それぞれの季節、それぞれの決断――。警官射殺命令を阻止する24時間を描いた『笑う警官』から、《己の信念と矜持》を描き続ける警察小説の金字塔、待望の最新刊&最高傑作。捜査の第一線から外され続けた佐伯宏一。だが能力の高さは重大事案の検挙実績では道警一だった。その佐伯は、度重なる警部昇進試験受験の説得に心が揺れていた。