Japanese Mystery

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger—with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step-sisters’ lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and to protect the three women if he can.

She was a monster, sleek and gleaming, designed to strike without warning like the dreaded shark. She was the USS Mako, as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific. Her mission: seek out and destroy the hitherto invincible ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy - and revenge the earlier defeats of a long and dirty war. Here is the story of the men who pitted their lives against impossible odds in the most dangerous branch of the American armed services.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Justaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honno-ji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of unsettling incidents within the castle walls has him at his wit’s end. The desperate warlord’s only hope for solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda’s most gifted strategists. When all the conflict and intrigue come to a close, what will these two men have gained…and lost?

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.

超高層マンション「スカイローズガーデン」の一室で、そこに住む野口夫妻の変死体が発見された。現場に居合わせたのは、20代の4人の男女。それぞれの証言は驚くべき真実を明らかにしていく。

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?

Following the loss of his brother to the war in Europe, Canadian writer John Easley feels duty-bound to report the story that seems to have fallen into his lap: the 1943 Japanese occupation of the U.S. Aleutian Islands and the Allied attempts to drive the Japanese forces back into the sea. But when his plane is shot down over the island of Attu, he is exposed to the full fury of a wilderness known as "the Birthplace of Winds." He soon discovers that the island’s indigenous residents (U.S. citizens) have all disappeared and that he has one choice: surrender or face starvation and madness alone.

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.

In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. Will the unluckiest assassin in the world will find things easier this time around? All he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. Then he attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?

かつての仲間も容赦しない。それが俺の仕事だ――警察職員の不正を取り締まる部署、警視庁人事一課監察係に所属する佐良は、捜査一課所属時の元同僚で、現在は運転免許場に勤務する皆口菜子の監察を命じられた。

In the Chizurui family mansion, a haunting presence casts a shadow over its residents. By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate—but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes. Within the confines of a locked study, the head of the family is found dead, with only an ominous Hannya mask lying on the floor by his side and the lingering scent of jasmine in the air.

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.

警察官を定年退職し、妻と共に四国遍路の旅に出た神場。旅先で知った少女誘拐事件は、16年前に自らが捜査にあたった事件に酷似していた。手掛かりのない捜査状況に悩む後輩に協力しながら、神場の胸には過去の事件への悔恨があった。

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

祖父と従姉妹とともに火事に遭い、全身大火傷の大怪我を負いながらも、ピアニストになることを誓う遥。コンクール優勝を目指して猛レッスンに励むが、不吉な出来事が次々と起こり、ついに殺人事件まで発生する……。ドビュッシーの調べも美しい、第8回『このミス』大賞・大賞受賞作。

車椅子の玄太郎おじいちゃん＆介護者・みち子さんコンビが大暴れ！玄太郎は下半身が不自由で「要介護」認定を受けている老人だが、頭の回転が早く、口が達者な不動産会社の社長。ある日、彼の分譲した土地で建築中の家の中（密室状態）から死体が発見された。お上や権威が大嫌いな玄太郎は、みち子を巻き込んで犯人捜しに乗り出す！

難聴を患いながらも、世界的なピアノコンクール「ショパン・コンクール」に出場するため、ポーランドに向かったピアニスト・岬洋介。しかし、ショパン・コンクールの会場で殺人事件が発生。遺体は手の指10本がすべて切り取られるという奇怪なものだった。岬は鋭い洞察力で殺害現場を検証していく!

加茂北高校音楽科に転入した岬洋介は、その卓越したピアノ演奏でたちまちクラスの面々を魅了する。しかしその才能は羨望と妬みをも集め、クラスメイトの岩倉にいじめられていた岬は、岩倉が他殺体で見つかったことで殺人の容疑をかけられる。憎悪を向けられる岬は自らの嫌疑を晴らすため、級友の鷹村とともに“最初の事件”に立ち向かう。その最中、岬のピアニスト人生を左右する悲運が……。