Japanese Mystery

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

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.

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.

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway.

Almost every afternoon, the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on the same park bench, where she eats a cream bun while the local children make a game of trying to get her attention. Unbeknownst to her, she is being watched—by the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who is always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes, what she eats, whom she speaks to.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

傷痍軍人のバートンが療養のために妹とその村に居を構えて間もなく、悪意と中傷に満ちた匿名の手紙が住民に無差別に届けられた。陰口、噂話、疑心暗鬼が村全体を覆い、やがて名士の夫人が服毒自殺を遂げた。

すべては45 万年以上前古代メソポタミアのシュメールで始まった 宇宙からの存在たちがエネルギー資源を求めて地球に降り立った その記録は人類が残した最古の文献エヌマエリシュギルガメシュ叙事詩アトラハシスその他の書物に明確に残されている これらの文書は粘土板に楔形文字で刻まれ後の時代には聖書の創世記や出エジプト記などの物語の基盤となった しかし真の知識はイデオロギー的宗教的な理由により隠蔽され改ざんされてしまった 科学が否定し続ける動かぬ証拠 長年の研究を通じてヘススセディエルは確信を得た事実は明白であり否定しようがない ただそれがあまりにも信じがたいがゆえに科学界は受け入れを拒み既存の歴史観と合わないものとして排除している ヴェルヌコードはフレミング以前のペニシリン飛行機の発明前の空の旅20世紀になって初めて発見された土地を正確に描いた古代の地図クレイグヴェンター以前のヒトゲノムドリー以前のクローン技術広島長崎以前の核爆発ゲロンコーポレーション以前の不老不死の研究… そうした&

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.

炎上商法でベストセラーを目指す新人作家、文学系インフルエンサーに対抗心を燃やす書評家、実績もないのに小説教室で荒稼ぎする講師……文芸界が生んだ “承認欲求モンスター”を、毒舌で退治しろ！

右翼系雑誌を扱う出版社が放火された。思想犯のテロと見て現場を訪れた公安の淡海は、作家兼業の刑事・毒島と出会う。犯罪者をいたぶることが趣味の彼は公安の考えも小馬鹿にし、淡海は反発。

舞台は台湾へ。公安外事・倉島シリーズ第7弾！警視庁公安部外事一課の倉島は、台湾の警察から研修の講師を務めるよう要請され、ゼロの研修から戻った後輩の西本と台北に向かった。

突然届いた一通のメール――人生逆転の方法は「口外禁止」!?共感！疑惑!? 驚愕！ 圧巻の長編ミステリー

新築の我が家は、事故物件!?東京都S区の分譲住宅「畝目(うねめ)４丁目プロジェクト」。念願の新居に胸膨らませ引っ越してきた住人たちだが、ある家から死体が見つかった。

皇居周辺で二人の男が射殺された。世間が〈大手町のテロリスト〉と騒ぐ中、警視庁一の検挙率を誇る毒島は殺人犯を嘲笑。犯罪者を毒舌で追い詰めることが生きがいの彼は「チンケな犯人」と挑発し、頭脳戦を仕掛ける――。

新人賞の選考に関わる編集者の刺殺死体が発見された。三人の作家志望者が容疑者に浮上するも捜査は難航。警視庁捜査一課の新人刑事・高千穂明日香の前に現れた助っ人は、人気ミステリ作家兼刑事技能指導員の毒島真理。

内容紹介 こども達が夢中になる探偵小説！当時、少年探偵団に憧れた子ども達が、次の世代に薦める!太鼓判の江戸川乱歩 少年探偵団シリーズ。

Following the loss of his brother to the war in Europe, Canadian writer John Easley feels duty-bound to report the story that seems to have fallen into his lap: the 1943 Japanese occupation of the U.S. Aleutian Islands and the Allied attempts to drive the Japanese forces back into the sea. But when his plane is shot down over the island of Attu, he is exposed to the full fury of a wilderness known as "the Birthplace of Winds." He soon discovers that the island’s indigenous residents (U.S. citizens) have all disappeared and that he has one choice: surrender or face starvation and madness alone.