Japanese Mystery

As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting, and a series of baffling murders. The brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada arrives to investigate.

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

【解説】「屋根裏の散歩者」は密室殺人事件の傑作で、発表当時、世間から非難を浴びたという問題作。卒業後も親の仕送りで下宿で暮らす郷田三郎は、屋根裏の散歩で20人もの下宿人の意外な姿を盗み見ることがこの上ない快楽となった。ある日、虫の好かない遠藤が口をあけて寝ている姿を見て、ある「犯罪(殺意)」に夢想して興奮し、実行に移すのだが・・・。名探偵、明智小五郎とのスリルあるやりとりが物語を終焉へと誘っていく。 「人間椅子」は、椅子職人の異常な告白の物語。ある日、洋館に住む美しい閨秀作家の佳子のもとに届いた手紙に綴られた告白では、自分が外人ホテルからの特別注文で作った肘掛椅子を愛するあまり、その中に自分の体を忍び込ませたという。皮一枚隔てて触れる様々な外国人の男女の肉体の感触に陶酔するが、やがて彼の欲求は日本人のそれへと沸き立っていく。そしてその椅子は、ある洋館に引き取られていったのだが・・・。 【朗読者】wis(透明感のある声で知られる女性朗読家です)

デビュー作『変な家』が大ヒットし、映画化も決定！　人気急上昇中のホラー作家・雨穴が手がける２作目のテーマは“変な絵”。

都内文教地区の町で出会った５人の母親。育児を通して互いに心を許しあう彼女たちだったが、その関係性は徐々に変容してゆく。引き金となったのは小学校受験なのか、それとももっと他の何かなのか。

Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes. A mean teacher is found with scissors in her neck, and Takeo Kayama, the sexy billionaire heir to the school, considers Rei's aunt the main suspect.

見つかったのは、ミカちゃんなんじゃないか――『かがみの孤城』『傲慢と善良』の著者が描く、瑞々しい子どもたちの日々。そして、痛みと成長。

ドンデン返しの帝王、渾身の大作！ 若手時代に逮捕した男は無実だったのか？ 渡瀬刑事は孤独な捜査を始めたが…社会派ミステリーに驚愕の真実を仕掛けた傑作。

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?

話題騒然!!2020年、ウェブサイトで166万PVを記録YouTubeではなんと700万回以上再生!あの「【不動産ミステリー】変な家」には さらなる続きがあった!!謎の空間、二重扉、窓のない子供部屋

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。

デビュー作の絵本『あおぞらリボン』がベストセラーとなった陽子と、新聞記者の晴美は親友同士。共に幼いころ親に捨てられ児童養護施設で育った過去を持つ。

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honno-ji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of unsettling incidents within the castle walls has him at his wit’s end. The desperate warlord’s only hope for solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda’s most gifted strategists. When all the conflict and intrigue come to a close, what will these two men have gained…and lost?

Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an illegal organ broker. Three lives become entangled in threads of flesh and are plunged deep into a world of blood and bone. Together, they carve out a new criminal empire, but how long can a dynasty last? Destiny is not for mortals to decide. It is cast by the Night and Wind. It is cast by Tezcatlipoca.

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own wife. Ken, already inked with a gang symbol and a Japanese emblem, eventually asks Cal to create an elaborate tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void.

A ghostly visit from her former landlady draws Emma away from sleepy little Hillbilly Hollow to investigate a murder in the big city. But what seems like a straightforward case soon becomes entangled with an event from Emma's past and a personal quest for justice. With the attractive but bungling Sheriff Tucker at her side, will Emma be tempted by the chance to avenge an old wrong?

“日本のバンクシー”は誰だ⁉松本清張賞受賞作TBS「王様のブランチ」、「産経新聞」、「毎日新聞」で紹介！

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?

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！

二度と戻らないつもりでいた桜の町に彼を引き戻したのは、一本の電話だった。「高砂澄香が自殺しました」