Japanese Mystery

In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. Will the unluckiest assassin in the world will find things easier this time around? All he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. Then he attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?

「愛美は死にました。しかし事故ではありません。このクラスの生徒に殺されたのです」我が子を校内で亡くした中学校の女性教師によるホームルームでの告白から、この物語は始まる。語り手が「級友」「犯人」「犯人の家族」と次々と変わり、次第に事件の全体像が浮き彫りにされていく。衝撃的なラストを巡り物議を醸した、デビュー作にして、第6回本屋大賞受賞のベストセラー。

警視庁捜査一課に所属する女性刑事・志々目春香と後輩の男性刑事・藤堂遥の〈ハルカ〉コンビ。新宿・大久保の古いマンションで若いベトナム人女性「リンダ」の死体が発見された。

特捜本部は栗橋・高井を犯人と認める記者会見を開き、前畑滋子は事件のルポを雑誌に連載しはじめた。

風ヶ丘高校の旧体育館で、放課後、放送部の少年が刺殺された。外は激しい雨で、密室状態の体育館にいた唯一の人物、女子卓球部部長の犯行だと警察は決めてかかる。卓球部員・柚乃は、部長を救うために、学内一の天才と呼ばれている裏染天馬に真相の解明を頼んだ。アニメオタクの駄目人間に──。“平成のエラリー・クイーン”が、論理に磨きをかけて読者に挑戦！　第22回鮎川哲也賞受賞作。

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!

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.

わたしがまだ時折、自殺願望に取り付かれていた頃、サラちゃんは殺された──新人脚本家の甲斐千尋は、新進気鋭の映画監督長谷部香から、新作の相談を受けた。

「こんにちは、章子。私は20年後のあなた、30歳の章子です。あなたはきっと、これはだれかのイタズラではないかと思っているはず。

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。

“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！

雨穴最新作！『変な家』第２弾！14万字超、完全書き下ろし！あなたは、この「11の間取り」の謎が解けますか？

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.

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。

500ページ、一気読み！知念実希人の新たな代表作誕生。作家デビュー10年 実業之日本社創業125年 記念作品。雪深き森で、燦然と輝く、硝子の塔。地上11階、地下1階、唯一無二の美しく巨大な尖塔だ。

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.

7500万円の横領金を資本に、銀座のママに転身したベテラン女子行員、原口元子。

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?

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.