Japanese Mystery Fiction

Can you ever forget your true love? Aditya and Riya could never imagine life without each other. Since their accidental meeting two years ago, they have been inseparable until an unexpected tragedy changes the course of their lives forever. Will their love stand the test of time? From the...

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.

Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese-American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

Within the premises of the Japanese Consulate in London a perfidious assasination came to pass. In order to avoid diplomatic affairs and to quickly solve this murder the responsible intelligence officer turns to Sherlock Holmes.

A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this Japanese bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan. He’s not your average Grandpa. As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters...

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.

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.

A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times) In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but...

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...

All relationships should come with a precautionary warning: HANDLE WITH CARE The final audition for Rajhans College’s prestigious music band brings together three contrasting personalities. Vikrant, a perfectionist, who believes there is only one perfect someone for you. Anamika, a free spirit...

半グレと裏社会の実態を生々しく描き出す 東京の闇を描いた究極のピカレスク小説 大きな話題を集めた『半グレ』を文庫化。 かつての裏社会の王者・暴力団が衰退する一方で、特殊詐欺などのシノギを

内容紹介
美貌の柳倭文子（しずこ）を巡り、三谷青年と中年紳士岡田は決闘を行っていた。
決闘の舞台装置は二つのワイングラスの片方のなかに入れられた毒薬。

内容紹介
土師清二、国枝史郎、長谷川伸、小酒井不木の四人との合作リレー小説。

夫と離婚し、酒浸りの日々を送るレイチェル。彼女は通勤電車の窓から、一組の幸せそうな夫婦を見つけ、昔の自分の姿と重ね合わせていた。その夫婦の家はかつての自宅に近接しており、元夫は当時の家で新しい妻子と暮らしているのだった……ロンドンに向かう通勤電車とその車窓から見える家を舞台に起こる犯罪を、女性三人の独白により描くサイコミステリー。

日々をだらだらと過ごす、十九歳のフリータ…

夫と離婚し、酒浸りの日々を送るレイチェル。彼女は通勤電車の窓から、一組の幸せそうな夫婦を見つけ、昔の自分の姿と重ね合わせていた。その夫婦の家はかつての自宅に近接しており、元夫は当時の家で新しい妻子と暮らしているのだった……ロンドンに向かう通勤電車とその車窓から見える家を舞台に起こる犯罪を、女性三人の独白により描くサイコミステリー。

あたしはメ

「救い出すからな」「―はい」「それまで、がんばれるか」「―分かりません」音道貴子のいらえを聞いた滝沢はぞくぞくした。あの絶対に弱みをみせまいとする女が。まずい。人質となって７日。限界が近い。どうにか生きているうちに発見できたと言うのに。･･犯人グループは銃を持っている。わずか数メートルの距離にいながら手も足も出せない。どうすれば、いい。　――緊迫の下巻。　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_武井寿夫

若い夫婦が自宅で惨殺され、現場には「怒」という血文字が残されていた。犯人は山神一也、二十七歳と判明するが、その行方は杳として知れず捜査は難航していた。そして事件から一年後の夏――。千葉の港町で働く槙洋平・愛子親子、東京の大手企業に勤めるゲイの藤田優馬、沖縄の離島で母と暮らす小宮山泉の前に、身元不詳の三人の男が現れた。

拳銃も手帳も取り上げられた元マル暴刑事・佐伯涼が環境犯罪に立ち向かう