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Showing posts with label japanese crime. Show all posts

Showing posts with label japanese crime. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2025

Review: Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

Synopsis: Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a mystery that has baffled Japan for ...

Review: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo

Synopsis: Tokyo, 1947. The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most shady neighbourhoods. There, in the dead of night a pa...

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Review: Murder in the House of Omari by Taku Ashibe

Synopsis: Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family i...

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Review: The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Aatsuji

Synopsis: Miyagaki Yōtarō is one of Japan's most famed mystery writers, but several years ago he put down his pen and left the Tokyo li...

Monday, July 14, 2025

Review: The Black Swan Mystery by Tetsuya Ayukawa

Synopsis: Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station. Suspicion in...

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Review: The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

Synopsis: An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to...

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