Vann Chow

The story follows a cast of characters Carson Smith, the middle-aged American businessman, Tanaka Ryuuji, the disillusioned movie director, and Itsuki Miyazaki, the corrupted detective, in their journey across Japan to uncovering the secrets behind a series of murders....

An unforgettable, breathless debut fiction by author Vann Chow, The Pachinko Girl is the winning selection of an international book award online with over 140,000 submissions....

When Joe finds out that the agency insures that a person’s marriage won’t fall apart, he is beyond baffled. How can anyone, let alone perpetually single Joe, promise such a thing? Now Joe must make enough profit to pay his bills with or make the business attractive enough to sell it off....

She was 15 when she met him on the snowy mountain. He was a charming young man from the city and he swept her feet away. She moved to Tokyo for him full of hope. Then one day he was murdered. To avoid being suspected, she had to disappear in the crowd....

She was 15 when she met him on the snowy mountain. He was a charming young man from the city, and he swept her away. She moved to Tokyo for him, full of hope. Then one day, she was betrayed....

Despite his intelligence, Jong was hardly employee-of-the-month, and he was fired from his job once again. Luckily for him, Marvey Simons, the American intern he had a secret crush on, introduced him to Mr. Qi, the manager of a major bank, who was desperately looking for a programmer....

You are not the only ones who are occasionally confused, misunderstood, and lost in the wonderful yet sophisticated Chinese system....

An erotic art house movie The Beginning of the End, directed by famous Frenchman Sergey Ribery, was released in Japan to critical acclaim. Little did the audience know that Misa Hayami, the actress in the movie, had died in a freak accident during filming....

The action-packed story told in first-person perspective follows Jong He, a highly intelligent but socially awkward Chinese programmer and his friends around the financial capital of the country in the cat-and-mouse chase of the biggest cryptocurrency heist of our time....

Jong may be clever, but he was so awkward when it comes to dealing with women. After his girlfriend broke up with him, Jong got into all sorts of troubles. A chance encounter put him under the radar of Shirley Li, the daughter of Li Kun, one of the richest men in China....

Every year on the day of the Ghost Festival, creatures from the underworld roam city streets freely when the gate of hell is opened. The owner of the House of Life set out a lavish banquet to entertain and appease these hungry ghosts....