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For a thought-provoking read, "Butter" isn't just a gripping psychological thriller, it delves into the depths of human obsession and the role of food as both an art form and a weapon. As you get entangled in the exchanges between the journalist and the enigmatic killer, you'll be lured by the disturbingly delicious narrative that blends crime with culinary expertise. This book is both a delicacy for food lovers and a feast for fans of dark, character-driven mysteries.
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This book is an absolute page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. Through the masterful storytelling of Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen combines the gripping intensity of a thriller with the emotional depth of a character-driven narrative. The author's ability to capture the nuances of office politics and the aftermath of a catastrophic event creates a truly immersive reading experience. Prepare to be hooked from the first page as you embark on a journey filled with suspense, secrets, and a quest for the truth.
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Eli K.P. William, Keiichirō Hirano |
Amazon
Crossing
A Man
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Goodreads rating: 3.94
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This book, "A Man", is a gripping psychological thriller that takes you on a thrilling journey to unravel the truth behind a man's hidden identity. As you follow divorce attorney Akira Kido's investigation into a dead man's secrets, you'll be captivated by the layers of mystery and the twists and turns that keep you guessing until the very end. With its exploration of the search for identity and the complex nature of memory, this book will leave you questioning the boundaries of truth and the choices we make to create our own lives. Get ready to be engrossed in a tale that will make you question everything you thought you knew.
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Deborah Boehm, Akimitsu Takagi, Barry Lancet |
Soho
Crime
The Tattoo Murder Case
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Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who was first to discover the crime scene, feels compelled to assist his detective brother, who is in charge of the case. But Kenzo has a he was Kinue’s lover, and soon his involvement in the investigation becomes as twisted and complex as the writhing snakes that once adorned Kinue’s torso.The Tattoo Murder Case was originally published in 1948; this is the first English translation.
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Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray |
Little,
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Group
Silent Parade : A DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVEL
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This book would be a good read for fans of complex mysteries that keep you guessing until the end. The book's most unique feature is its combination of police procedural and puzzle mystery genres. As readers follow the investigation into a murder suspect who dies unexpectedly, they will be kept on the edge of their seats trying to piece together the clues. Keigo Higashino's writing is praised for its intrigue and Silent Parade is no exception.
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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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Tetsuya Honda, Giles Murray |
Titan
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The Silent Dead
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Goodreads rating: 3.44
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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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Alfred Birnbaum, Miyuki Miyabe |
Mariner
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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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Satoko Izumo, Fuminori Nakamura, Stephen Coates |
Corsair
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 |
Pushkin
Vertigo
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 |
Bitter
Lemon
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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 |
Kodansha
Usa
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 |
Kodansha
Shadow Family
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Goodreads rating: 3.36
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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 |
Locked
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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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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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Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith |
Abacus
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 |
Bitter
Lemon
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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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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 |
Soho
Crime
Last Winter We Parted
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Goodreads rating: 3.37
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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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Satoko Izumo, Fuminori Nakamura, Stephen Coates |
Corsair
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 |
Titan
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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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Shika MacKenzie, Ross MacKenzie, Sōji Shimada |
Pushkin
Vertigo
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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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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