Japanese Mystery Fiction

Book Two of the Lost Souls Series The much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living...

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

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。

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。

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

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

山神一也は整形手術を受け逃亡している、と警察は発表した。洋平は一緒に働く田代が偽名だと知り、優馬は同居を始めた直人が女といるところを目撃し、泉は気に掛けていた田中が住む無人島であるものを見てしまう。日常をともに過ごす相手に対し芽生える疑い。三人のなかに、山神はいるのか？　犯人を追う刑事が見た衝撃の結末とは！

夏合宿のために矢吹山のキャンプ場へやってきた英都大学推理小説研究会の面々を、予想だにしない事態が待ち構えていた。山が噴火し、偶然一緒になった三グループの学生たちは、陸の孤島と化したキャンプ場に閉じ込められてしまったのだ。その極限状況の中、まるで月の魔力に誘われたように出没する殺人鬼！　有栖川有栖のデビュー長編。

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

連続殺人の容疑者に間違われ、事故死した少年。１５年後、女性殺人の重要参考人となり、行方不明になった会社員。「息子は悪くない」―二人の母親の想いは交錯し、二つの事件をつなぐ衝撃の真実が明らかになる

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.

Danger awaits best friends on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run. A missing journalist cannot tell the world he is still alive by becoming a mystery writer's alibi. When Hiromi came back to Paris to settle an old score, she had no idea her target might be hiding on the island of Malta. But, now, she has a chance to redeem her reputation by neutralizing a rogue agent and capturing the mystery writer who hides agency secrets in his novels.