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Recommended for: Those interested in the psychology of cults, religious extremism and those who enjoy a thrilling, suspenseful story. Cult X is an intense page-turner that delves into the psyche of those who are drawn to extremist religious groups. Nakamura masterfully intertwines themes of science, spirituality, and consumerism, creating a novel that will leave readers questioning their own beliefs and the world around them. A must-read for fans of dark, psychological thrillers.
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Recommendation: Parade is a captivating read that brings to life the hidden desires and struggles of its characters. Through the intertwined stories of four intertwined individuals, Yoshida offers a thought-provoking exploration of love, loneliness, and intimacy in a modern, urban environment. The novel's unique and distinctive feature lies in its ability to convey the complexities of human emotions in a candid and unsentimental way, making it an excellent choice for readers who enjoy character-driven plots and psychological realism. If you're looking for a gripping story that will keep you on your toes until the very end, don't miss Parade!
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Edogawa Rampo, James B. Harris, Patricia Welch |
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Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination can be a good read for someone who is looking for suspenseful and horror stories that offer a unique take on the genre. The book has a quick tempo that will keep readers on the edge of their seat, and each story has a distinct twist that makes it different from Western horror stories. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe will appreciate the similarities between his stories and those in this collection.
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Tetsuya Honda, Giles Murray |
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The Silent Dead
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"The Silent Dead" is a thrilling crime novel with a strong female protagonist that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The unique feature of this book is the incorporation of the dark web aspect into the plot, which adds a modern and intriguing element. Recommended for fans of suspenseful and complex crime thrillers.
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Noizi Ito, Nagaru Tanigawa |
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The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya
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The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya is an excellent read for fans of science fiction. The book's unique feature is the way it weaves an intricate storyline involving alternate dimensions and time travel in a light-hearted Christmas tale. The author's imaginative world-building, memorable characters, and fast-paced plot are sure to leave readers thoroughly entertained.
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Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami |
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a must-read for fans of Murakami's surrealistic style. The novel's unique blend of detective story, science fiction, and post-modern manifesto makes for a thrilling read. Murakami's blending of Western and Eastern culture creates a refreshing perspective, while the heart-wrenching plot will leave you contemplating the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
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Miyuki Miyabe, Jim Hubbert |
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The Gate Of Sorrows
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"The Gate of Sorrows" is a thrilling mystery that will keep readers on the edge of their seats with its unique blend of supernatural, suspenseful horror and detective work. Miyabe's use of otherworldly monsters and supernatural threats will make a spine-chilling experience for readers who crave both the familiar and the paranormal, while the story provides unique cultural aspects of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward and its busy neighborhoods. Recommended for those who enjoy a good blend of mystery and horror in their reads.
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Alfred Birnbaum, Miyuki Miyabe |
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All She Was Worth
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"All She Was Worth" could be a good read for someone who enjoys crime thrillers with an international setting. The book stands out for its exploration of the dark side of Japan's consumer culture, with ordinary people getting caught up in dangerous webs of underground creditors. The story involves a mystery surrounding a missing woman who may not be who she claims to be. The book is also unique for its commentary on the invasive tracking of citizens in Japan. Overall, readers would likely appreciate the immersive, suspenseful experience of this well-written thriller.
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Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami draws you into a surreal, mystical journey that combines folktales, war memories, and a young man's coming of age story. The book's unique and distinctive feature is the way it takes the reader through several levels of experiences, dreams, and memories in a way that is both mysterious and fascinating. With its complex characters and subplots, this book is a must-read for anyone looking for something outside the ordinary.
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"Birthday" would be a great read for horror fans who want to explore the world of the "Ring" universe from the perspective of memorable female characters. The book's unique and distinctive feature is its exploration of birth as a theme, and the way it ties into the horror elements of the story. The book has been adapted into a hit movie, so readers can expect a thrilling and engaging read.
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Dr. Ando who has yet to recover from his son's death at sea, conducts an autopsy on an old friend who has died under unusual circumstances. The corpse, that of cynical philosophy professor Ryuji Takayama, has something to tell him. And Ryuji isn't the only one who chooses to make a reappearance in this story.You don't know what the RING is yet. The terms of the curse of the videotape undergo a jaw-dropping reconfiguration in this novel, the horror master's stunning reinvention of his own bestselling tale. Spiral is written as a stand-alone work; for Ring fans, its' a sequel that redefines the word.
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Satoko Izumo, Fuminori Nakamura, Stephen Coates |
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The Thief
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Nishimura is a seasoned pickpocket, weaving through Tokyo's crowded streets, in search for potential targets. He has no family, no friends, no connections...But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when his old partner-in-crime reappears and offers him a job he can't refuse. Suddenly, Nishimura finds himself caught in a web so tangled and intricate that even he might not be able to escape.
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Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai |
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The Honjin Murders
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Reasons to Read:
- Are you a fan of gripping murder mysteries with a haunting atmosphere? Dive into the snowy world of "The Honjin Murders" where a sinister masked man, a shocking murder, and an impossible crime await.
- Join amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi on a quest to unravel the secrets of the Ichiyanagi family and the village of Okamura. With its captivating blend of suspense, eerie music, and a bloody samurai sword, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
- Step into the intriguing world of 1930s Japan and delve into a meticulously plotted murder mystery that will challenge your deductive skills. "The Honjin Murders" is a must-read for fans of classic detective stories.
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Louise Heal Kawai, Seichō Matsumoto |
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A Quiet Place
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While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
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Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, Miyuki Miyabe |
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The Devil's Whisper
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Three deaths come in quick one girl jumps from the roof of a six-story building; another falls in front of a train; and a third is hit by a late-night taxi. But how are they related? And are they accidents, suicides -- or murder?Slowly, the answers are uncovered by sixteen-year-old Mamoru, the nephew of the taxi driver currently being held by the police on charges of manslaughter for the death of the third victim.Determined to help his uncle, Mamoru discovers that the girl killed by his uncle's taxi had participated in a devious scam to separate vulnerable men from their money, and that three of the four girls involved in the plot are now dead. When a powerful businessman reveals new evidence that could freeMamoru's uncle, Mamoru decides he must go all out if he is to save the last of the four girls being targeted by the real killer.And then the killer contacts him...
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Juliet Winters Carpenter, Miyuki Miyabe |
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Shadow Family
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Shadow Family could be a good read for those interested in exploring the psychological tension between reality and fantasy, as well as the dangers of anonymous online interactions. The unique and distinctive feature of this book is its exploration of the "shadow lives" people can lead online and the consequences that can emerge in reality. Users may review this book as a thought-provoking and suspenseful page-turner that raises important questions about technology and human behavior.
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Sōji Shimada, Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong |
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The Decagon House Murders
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Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming.
The Decagon House Murders
is a milestone in the history of detective fiction. Published in 1987, it is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement which restored Golden Age style plotting and fair-play clues to the Japanese mystery scene, which had been dominated by the social school of mystery for several decades. It is also said to have influenced the development of the wildly popular anime movement.This, the first English edition, contains a lengthy introduction by the maestro of Japanese mystery fiction, Soji Shimada.
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As indicated by the title, Bødy is a collection of horror stories, all thematically linked to people's perception of their bodies, and the consequences of vanity and low self-esteem. In the vein of the psychological suspense of the Twilight Zone, each story ends with a shock, leaving the reader unsettled with the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for," echoing in their bones. Appropriately, each of the five stories in Bødy gets its title from the body parts featured, buttocks, blood, face, hair and chin.
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Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories - From Japan's Greatest Detective And Crime Writers
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"As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction." -- Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery FictionA newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered--it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer.The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating inspector, a tenacious journalist, and a determined scientist.The thrilling stories in this volume include:Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories is a collection that is sure to delight lovers of great detective and crime fiction. The book features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito which places the stories within the context of Japanese society and modern Japanese literature.
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A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable. The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections.... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can’t refuse. It’s an easy tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.From the Hardcover edition.
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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo.Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them.But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
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Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith |
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A Midsummer's Equation : A DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVEL
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Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project.The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police.As the police try to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa finds himself enmeshed in yet another confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder.
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Louise Heal Kawai, Seichō Matsumoto |
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A Quiet Place
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While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
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The Fire Kimono is another dazzling historical mystery set in feudal Japan from acclaimed author Laura Joh Rowland.Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war.When a long-buried skeleton with mysterious links to the shogun suddenly comes to light, Sano and his wife, Reiko, who defies social conventions by joining in his investigations, must confront dangerous secrets. What was Sano's own mother doing on the night when a burning kimono ignited a blaze that nearly destroyed the city? The shogun gives Sano and Reiko just three days to find out--or risk losing not only their position at court but their families' lives.
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Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Toru Okada is an apparently happy man, drifting through life in a vague, blameless and somewhat apathetic manner. Then one morning his wife leaves for work and never returns.
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A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.
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In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge.Out is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.
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Allison Markin Powell, Fuminori Nakamura |
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Last Winter We Parted
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Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity.A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account of the case, from the bizarre and grisly details of the crime to the nature of the man behind it. The suspect, a world-renowned photographer named Kiharazaka, has a deeply unsettling portfolio—lurking beneath the surface of each photograph is an acutely obsessive fascination with his subject.He stands accused of murdering two women—both burned alive—and will likely face the death penalty. But something isn’t quite right. As the young writer probes further, his doubts about this man as a killer intensify, and he struggles to maintain his sense of reason and justice. Is Kiharazaka truly guilty, or will he die to protect someone else?Evoking Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “Hell Screen,” Last Winter, We Parted is a twisted talea that asks a deceptively sinister question: Is it possible to truly capture the essence of another human being?From the Hardcover edition.
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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
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Haruki Murakami
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle : Vintage Classics Japanese Series
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Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki MurakamiToru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out. He embarks on a bizarre journey, guided by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The TimesPart of the VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS series - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
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Ralph McCarthy, Ryū Murakami |
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In The Miso Soup
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It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.
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‘A fine debut – fast-paced and bleak, with a vivid setting and gut-wrenching twists.’ MICK HERRON‘A vivid and noirish tale of an Englishman abroad discovering that you can run from everything but yourself. James Buckler is one to watch.’ SIMON BECKETT, bestselling author of The Chemistry of Death********The funny thing with suffering is just when you think you’ve suffered enough, you realize it’s only the beginning.Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex.The bright lights and dark corners of this alien and fascinating city intoxicate him, and he finds himself transfixed by this country, which feels like a puzzle that no one can quite explain. And when Alex meets the enigmatic and alluring Naoko, the peace he sought slips ever further from his grasp.After all, trust is just betrayal waiting to happen and Alex is about to find out that there’s no such thing as rock bottom. There’s always the chance it’ll get worse . . .
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In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her.Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.
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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo.Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them.But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
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Satoko Izumo, Fuminori Nakamura, Stephen Coates |
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The Thief
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A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable. The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections.... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can’t refuse. It’s an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.
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Tetsuya Honda, Giles Murray |
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The Silent Dead
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When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime.At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division is young to have been made lieutenant, particularly because she lacks any kind of political or family connections. Despite barriers created by age, gender, and lack of connections, she is mentally tough, oblivious to danger, and has an impressive ability to solve crimes.Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies, all wrapped in the same sort of plastic. Few of the bodies are identifiable, but the ones that are have no connection to each other. The only possible clue is a long shot lead to a website spoken only in whispers on the Internet, something on the dark web known as "Strawberry Night."But while she is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her... and she may very well have been marked as the next victim.
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A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old.From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.~from the back coverAfternoon at the bakery --Fruit juice --Old Mrs. J --The little dustman --Lab coats --Sewing for the heart --Welcome to the museum of torture --The man who sold braces --The last hour of the Bengal tiger --Tomatoes and the full moon --Poison plants
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Ralph McCarthy, Ryū Murakami |
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In the Miso Soup
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It's just before New Year. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible that his client may be in fact the killer currently terrorizing the city. Kenji is a likeable, if far from innocent guide, leading the reader through the inferno of violence and evil into which he apparently unwillingly descends - and from which only Jun, his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, can possibly save him. Kenji's intimate knowledge of Tokyo's sex industry, his thoughtful observations and wisecracks, his insights into the emptiness and hypocrisy of contemporary Japan, and his ultimate moral paralysis and complicity reveal a deeply distressed and rotten modern world that seems to have lost its way in search of pleasure and instant gratification.
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Shika MacKenzie, Ross MacKenzie, Sōji Shimada |
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
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Japan, 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead- in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal alchemy, astrology and a complicated plan to kill all seven women. Shortly afterwards, the plan is carried out: the women are found dismembered and buried across rural Japan.By 1979, these Tokyo Zodiac Murders have been obsessing a nation for decades, but not one of them has been solved. A mystery-obsessed illustrator and a talented astrologer set off around the country – and you follow, carrying the enigma of the Zodiac murderer through madness, missed leads and magic tricks. You have all the clues, but can you solve the mystery before they do?
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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. This book tells a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
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"When We Were Orphans" pulls you into Christopher Banks' quest, feeling less like a traditional whodunit and more like a deep dive into one's psyche amidst historical chaos. As you get immersed in Banks' search for truth, not just about his parents but about himself, the book's ability to weave through the complexities of memory and identity will resonate with anyone who has ever looked back to understand their place in the world. Ishiguro once again proves his mastery in exploring how the past forever shapes us, making this novel a thoughtful and captivating read.
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Keigo Higashino, Joseph Reeder, Alexander O. Smith |
Abacus
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
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Goodreads rating: 4.33
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If you love intricate mysteries that span decades, "Journey Under the Midnight Sun" will immerse you in a web of unsolved crimes. With vivid characters and a captivating plot, this book keeps you guessing till the very end. Get ready to uncover the enigmatic secrets hidden under the perpetual twilight of the midnight sun.
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Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin |
Vintage
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Goodreads rating: 4.14
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This book is a mesmerizing and deeply philosophical journey that delves into the uncanny and mysterious. Murakami's prose weaves a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty, with vivid characters and mind-bending plotlines that will keep you engaged throughout. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a true original, always leaving you wanting to know more about its surreal and enchanting world. Dive into this extraordinary novel and prepare to be captivated.
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Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami |
Vintage
Kafka on the Shore
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Goodreads rating: 4.12
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This book is a must-read for those seeking a mind-expanding experience. With its blend of surrealism, magical realism, and intricate storytelling, Kafka on the Shore takes readers on a mesmerizing journey through the protagonist's parallel odysseys filled with enigmatic characters, mysterious events, and thought-provoking riddles. Haruki Murakami captivates with his elegant and dreamlike writing style, creating a masterpiece that is both bewildering and enchanting. Prepare to be transported to a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and reality becomes beautifully blurred. Get ready for a truly extraordinary literary experience.
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