Japanese Mystery Fiction

*第1位『このミステリーがすごい! 2016年版』国内編ベスト10*第1位〈週刊文春〉2015年ミステリーベスト10/国内部門*第1位「ミステリが読みたい! 2016年版」国内篇*第3位『2016本格ミステリ・ベスト10』国内篇2001年、新聞社を辞めたばかりの太刀洗万智は、編集者から海外旅行特集の協力を頼まれ、事前調査のためネパールに向かう。

ぼくは思わず苦笑する。去年の夏休みに別れたというのに、何だかまた、小佐内さんと向き合っているような気がする。ぼくと小佐内さんの間にあるのが、極上の甘いものをのせた皿か、連続放火事件かという違いはあるけれど……ほんの少しずつ、しかし確実にエスカレートしてゆく連続放火事件に対し、ついに小鳩君は本格的に推理を巡らし始める。小鳩君と小佐内さんの再会はいつ?

小市民たるもの、日々を平穏に過ごす生活態度を獲得せんと希求し、それを妨げる事々に対しては断固として回避の立場を取るべし。賢しらに名探偵を気取るなどもってのほか。諦念と儀礼的無関心を心の中で育んで、そしていつか掴むんだ、あの小市民の星を! そんな高校2年生・小鳩君の、この夏の運命を左右するのは〈小佐内スイーツセレクション・夏〉!? 待望のシリーズ第2弾。

ここにあるべきではない四番目のマカロンの謎、マスタードが入った当たりのあげパンの行方。なぜかスイーツがらみの謎に巻き込まれがちな、小鳩君と小佐内さんの探偵行。「小佐内先輩が拉致されました! 」「えっ、また」?お待たせしました、日々つつましく小市民を目指す、あの互恵関係のふたりが帰ってきます。四編収録の番外短編集。

小鳩君と小佐内さんは、恋愛関係にも依存関係にもないが互恵関係にある高校1年生。きょうも2人は手に手を取って清く慎ましい小市民を目指す。それなのに、2人の前には頻繁に謎が現れる。名探偵面などして目立ちたくないのに、なぜか謎を解く必要に駆られてしまう小鳩君は、果たしてあの小市民の星をつかみとることができるのか? 新鋭が放つライトな探偵物語。

あの日の放課後、手紙で呼び出されて以降、ぼくの幸せな高校生活は始まった。学校中を二人で巡った文化祭。夜風がちょっと寒かったクリスマス。お正月には揃って初詣。ぼくに「小さな誤解でやきもち焼いて口げんか」みたいな日が来るとは、実際、まるで思っていなかったのだ。――それなのに、小鳩君は機会があれば彼女そっちのけで謎解きを繰り広げてしまい……シリーズ第3弾。

一九九一年四月。雨宿りをする一人の少女との偶然の出会いが、謎に満ちた日々への扉を開けた。遠い国からはるばるおれたちの街にやって来た少女、マーヤ。彼女と過ごす、謎に満ちた日常。そして彼女が帰国したとき、おれたちの最大の謎解きが始まる。覗き込んでくる目、カールがかった黒髪、白い首筋、『哲学的意味がありますか？』、そして紫陽花。謎を解く鍵は記憶の中に――。忘れ難い余韻をもたらす、出会いと祈りの物語。

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.

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.

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

A family had an experience and finally lost their child. This true story presents their incredible haunted experience. 

In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto is mourning the loss of her husband and son to a plane crash. Alone in her big modern house, which feels like more of a prison, Susie spends her days drinking heavily and taking her anger out at the only “sentient” thing left in her life: Sunny, the annoying home robot her husband designed. Susie despises Sunny, and sometimes even gets a sinking feeling that Sunny is out to hurt her.

【数分で味わえる文豪の世界】　品格、叙情、エゴ、真情、変態性、エロス、醜、美・・・巨星「川端康成」のあらゆる要素が凝縮された「掌の小説」。４０年余の歳月をかけて滴り落ちた掌編をあつめた、文豪の半生ともいうべき１２２編のうちの１編です。川端康成の本質と深く関わる濃密な時間を、じっくりとご堪能ください。　　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

あるところに一人のオクサマがいた。主人が浮気していると疑うと小突いたりヒステリーを起こしたりしていた。 そんな、ある日オクサマの友達である若い未亡人が訪問してきた。オクサマは主人のことが浮気しているかもと未亡人に泣いて訴えた。

Newly reinstated to the homicide division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.

The Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles. Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?

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.

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.

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.

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.”