Japanese Fiction Thrillers

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!

夏合宿のために矢吹山のキャンプ場へやってきた英都大学推理小説研究会の面々を、予想だにしない事態が待ち構えていた。山が噴火し、偶然一緒になった三グループの学生たちは、陸の孤島と化したキャンプ場に閉じ込められてしまったのだ。その極限状況の中、まるで月の魔力に誘われたように出没する殺人鬼！　有栖川有栖のデビュー長編。

東京都荒川区の超高層マンションで起きた凄惨な殺人事件。

攫われた呉定縁を救出すべく朱瞻基は一計を案じるが、過酷な危機が彼を襲う。一方、呉定縁の前に現れた教団の指導者は、衝撃的な真相を語りはじめる。明王朝の存亡が決まるまでの猶予は残り七日。

夏休みも中盤に突入し、向坂香織たち風ヶ丘高校新聞部の面々は、「風ヶ丘タイムズ」の取材で市内の穴場水族館である、丸美水族館に繰り出した。

Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada - Eagle and Crane - are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas - Japanese immigrants - stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.

真冬の欧州を走る豪華列車オリエント急行には、国籍も身分も様々な乗客が乗り込んでいた。奇妙な雰囲気が漂う車内で、いわくありげな老富豪が刺殺体で発見される。偶然乗り合わせたポアロが捜査に乗り出すが、すべての乗客には完璧なアリバイが……ミステリの魅力が詰まった名作の新訳版。（解説　有栖川有栖）

When her cozy hometown is visited by death, Emma's investigative skills are enlisted by a secretive ghost. But with the uncooperative spirit holding so much back, and with the handsome local doctor pressing Emma for answers, will she ever get to the bottom of the case? Or will the Hollow be forever haunted by the secrets of the past?

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?

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

Cara is on the cusp of adventure. Unlike her best friends, she doesn’t want to go to college, she wants different kinds of challenges. And anyway, home just doesn’t fit anymore. She is growing distant from her friends and hasn’t spoken to her father in eons. To make matters worse, her ex-boyfriend and fellow climber, Nat, has popped back into town after breaking up with her over text. So it’s the perfect time to leave, and she has big plans for a gap year to rock-climb in Patagonia. But when Cara hears that her father is actually missing, things change.

After a brutal murder investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the hopefully sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. Iwata sets up shop as a private investigator. Approached by an old contact whose daughter has been murdered and the case laid to rest - unsolved - Iwata agrees to take on the case out of loyalty. But what seems initially like a cold-blooded murder takes a different turn when a homeless witness recalls the murderer’s parting words: “I’m sorry.”

十五世紀の中国、明の時代。北京から南京に遣わされた皇太子は爆発による襲撃に襲われる。さらに北京にいる皇帝も命を狙われていることを知った皇太子は、幾度と襲い掛かってくる刺客から逃れつつ、南京から北京へ向かう幾千里にもわたる決死行が始まる！

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

Recién reincorporada a la Brigada tras la cirugía de reasignación de sexo, Sofía Luna se ve obligada a investigar un misterioso caso. ¿Quién es este asesino que escoge a sus víctimas, todas japonesas, en el centro turístico de Madrid? Todo parece apuntar hacia el peculiar mundo de los viajes turísticos organizados y el más peculiar aún de personas asexuales, un grupo que rechaza la hipersexualidad de la vida moderna y tiene como animal favorito la estrella de mar.

Danger awaits best friends on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run. A missing journalist cannot tell the world he is still alive by becoming a mystery writer's alibi. When Hiromi came back to Paris to settle an old score, she had no idea her target might be hiding on the island of Malta. But, now, she has a chance to redeem her reputation by neutralizing a rogue agent and capturing the mystery writer who hides agency secrets in his novels.

四〇〇日ぶりに東京に帰ってきた沢崎を待っていたのは浮浪者の男だった。男の導きで、沢崎は元高校野球選手からの調査を請け負う。

私立探偵フィリップ・マーロウは、億万長者の娘シルヴィアの夫テリー・レノックスと知り合う。あり余る富に囲まれていながら、男はどこか暗い蔭を宿していた。やがて彼は妻殺しの容疑をかけられ自殺を遂げてしまう。が、その裏には悲しくも奥深い真相が隠されていた。村上春樹の新訳で甦った名作『長いお別れ』