Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto; Beth Cary (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is found on the tracks: blood-stained, disfigured and unrecognisable. With only two leads - a distinctive accent and a single word, "kameda" - senior inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle. ...Show more
The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi
$28.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mystery The 1st book in English from Akimitsu Takagi since his "Clever, kinky, and highly entertaining" The Tattoo Murder Case (Washington Post ...Show more
The Consultant by Seong-sun Im
$37.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
Sometimes work can be murder...The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for - restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever suspect as murder.The 'natural deaths' he plans have always gone well- a medicine replaced here, a mec ...Show more
The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada
$28.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A classic Japanese mystery - a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoJapan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, ...Show more
The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama
$38.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has fai ...Show more
The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean | Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries Ser.
The scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates a series of gruesome murders within the feuding family of a brooding, troubled composer, whose most famous work chills the blood of all who hear it. The Devil’s Flute Murders is an ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of c ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
$26.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mysteryIn a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks ...Show more
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
$28.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read: clever enough that you're unlikely to guess it, but simple enough that you'll kick yourself when it's revealed. That's what has made it a classic in Japan, and what readers of this firs ...Show more
The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
$28.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A hugely enjoyable, page-turning classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first timeDon't miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric murder mystery--its propulsive plot makes for a comp ...Show more
Three Assassins: A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN by Kotaro Isaka
$26.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
Their mission is murder. His is revenge. A propulsive thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and ...Show more
The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely death. ...Show more
My Annihilation by FUMINORI NAKAMURA
$37.00 NZD
Category: Japanese-Korean
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary thatimplicates its r ...Show more