Japanese Fiction Thrillers

“I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami.” —Haruki Murakami From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. Hana...

In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries. Later that night, Ambassador Toda is shot and killed in his office and Cyrus Barker is discovered across the street, watching the very same office, in possession of a revolver with one spent cartridge.

Enter a world of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters in this “rousing tale of Shogun Japan” (New York Post) from the acclaimed author of Autumn Bridge. “Triumphant . . . terrific . . . This is a riveting read, alternately playful and suspenseful.”—People The year is 1861. After...

In Hillbilly Hollow, even the dead want the last word...When an eccentric local artist meets an untimely end during the annual Flower Festival, Emma gets pulled into two cases at once. First, the murder investigation. Second, the hunt for a dangerous burglar who has the whole town on edge. After all-brawn-and-no-brains Sheriff Tucker declares the death an accident, Emma's search for the killer hits a dead end... until a vengeful ghost comes calling. Can Emma decipher the mad ramblings of the disgruntled spirit?

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own wife. Ken, already inked with a gang symbol and a Japanese emblem, eventually asks Cal to create an elaborate tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void.

The acclaimed author of the celebrated literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. 1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner...

During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.

Originally published in 1922 and translated by Takashi Kojima, this classic short story was the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, about the murder of a samurai. Told from the perspective of multiple witnesses.

A ghostly visit from her former landlady draws Emma away from sleepy little Hillbilly Hollow to investigate a murder in the big city. But what seems like a straightforward case soon becomes entangled with an event from Emma's past and a personal quest for justice. With the attractive but bungling Sheriff Tucker at her side, will Emma be tempted by the chance to avenge an old wrong?

相撲と本格ミステリ、奇跡の邂逅　立ち合いの瞬間爆発する力士、頭のない前頭、連日、殺されていく対戦予定の力士……。相撲と本格ミステリ、奇跡のコラボレーション

神奈川県警みなとみらい署暴対係の警部・諸橋は、暴力団の間で〈ハマの用心棒〉と呼ばれ怖れられている。ヤクザの抗争に巻き込まれ、両親を失った諸橋の暴力団に対する憎悪は特別深いのだ。大学生が自室で変死体となって発見された。死因はヘロインの中毒死。市内では薬物検挙数が目に見えて増えているという。白い粉で俺たちのハマを汚すな! 絶好調、シリーズ第二弾。

When her cozy hometown is visited by death, Emma's investigative skills are enlisted by a secretive ghost. But with the uncooperative spirit holding so much back, and with the handsome local doctor pressing Emma for answers, will she ever get to the bottom of the case? Or will the Hollow be forever haunted by the secrets of the past?

神奈川県警みなとみらい署刑事組織犯罪対策課暴力団対策係係長「ハマの用心棒」こと諸橋のもとを県警本部監察官の笹本が訪ねてきた。県警本部長が諸橋、そして相棒の城島との面会を希望しているという。横浜・山手の廃屋で、中国人の遺体が発見された。被害者は中華街で一財産を築いたが、三年前から消息不明だった。

みなとみらい署暴対係係長諸橋と相棒の城島は、居酒屋で暴れた半グレたちを検挙する。彼らは東京を縄張りにする「ダークドラゴン」と呼ばれる中国系のグループだった。翌々日、関東進出を目論む関西系の組長が管内で射殺される。横浜での抗争が懸念される中、捜査一課があげた容疑者は諸橋たちの顔なじみだった。捜査一課の短絡的な見立てにまったく納得できない「ハマの用心棒」たちは――。(解説:西上心太)

港ヨコハマを暴力から守る「チーム諸橋」の活躍を描く「横浜みなとみらい署暴対係』シリーズ第七弾！商品を受け取るも代金を支払わない「取り込み詐欺」。暴力団の懐を肥やす資金源を断ち切るため、〝ハマの用心棒〟が倉庫街を駆ける！神奈川県警みなとみらい署刑事第一課暴力犯対策係係長・諸橋夏男。

神奈川県警みなとみらい署。暴力犯係係長の諸橋は「ハマの用心棒」と呼ばれ、暴力団には脅威の存在だ。地元の組織に潜入捜査中の警官が殺された。警察に対する挑戦か!?　ラテン系の陽気な相棒・城島をはじめ、諸橋班が港ヨコハマを駆け抜ける！

「ハマの用心棒」と呼ばれ、暴力団から恐れられている神奈川県警みなとみらい署の暴対係長・諸橋。陽気な相棒・ジョーこと城島をはじめ、部下たちから尊敬、信頼されている。ある日、馴染みのやくざ・神野組唯一の組員・岩倉が身柄を拘束された。素人に手を出したという。昔気質の神野が素人に手を出すはずがない。諸橋と城島は岩倉の取調に立ち会う。 表題作「防波堤」他、横浜を舞台に悪と戦う諸橋班の活躍を描く6篇を収録。

警察小説のトップランナー・今野敏の人気シリーズ、待望の最新刊！神奈川県警監察官の笹本に新たな任務が！みなとみらい署暴対係長の通称「ハマの用心棒」諸橋と、地元のヤクザである神風会組長・神野の癒着が問題視されているようだ。折しもみなとみらい署管内で暴力団同士の傷害事件が発生。本部長に調査を命じられた笹本は、諸橋に会うべく現場へと向かった！

CI SONO DUE COSE CHE IO NON RIESCO ASSOLUTAMENTE A SOPPORTARE: LE FEMMINISTE E LA MARGARINA. Rika è una giornalista in una rivista maschile. È l’unica donna nel suo posto di lavoro e spesso viene trattata come una segretaria, quando non peggio. Per cercare di farsi strada lavora giorno e notte e tutto ciò che riesce a cucinare quando la sera torna tardi a casa è un ramen preconfezionato. Da tempo però un pensiero la assilla: vuole intervistare Manako Kajii, la cuoca gourmet accusata di aver assassinato gli uomini d’affari con i quali si intratteneva, dopo aver cucinato per loro.

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.