Japanese Mystery

Brought to you by Penguin. A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man’s body is found on the tracks. With only two leads – a distinctive accent and a single word, ‘kameda’...

WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...

Award-winning novelist Michael Pronko examines Tokyo as a place, a culture, and a series of intense experiences, with humor, delicacy, and enchantment. More than just a setting for novels and films, Tokyo is a lively, interactive space that constantly pops up questions: How do you sweat politely, in Tokyo’s sweltering summers? How do you glance sideways, on crowded trains? How do homeowners transform a sliver of space into an impeccable garden? The answers are not what one might expect.

Emma Hooper thought coming home to small-town life and the family farm would give her a chance to rest and recover from a traumatic accident. But that was before she started seeing ghosts. It was before Grandma Hooper started singing on the roof, and it was way, way before anybody spotted a ghost in a 19th-century cavalry uniform coming out of an outhouse. Can Emma learn to handle her newfound ability to see spirits, while figuring out a confusing relationship with the handsome local doctor? All while solving the ghastly murder of Preacher Jacob? 

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

新潟生まれの美しい女、美禰子が鋭い刃物のようなもので切りつけられる事件が起こった。

Brought to you by Penguin. Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes! Over 24 million copies have been sold of this beloved samurai adventure It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a year since he left his father Kohei – once the most skilled swordsman in the land – to set...

Within the premises of the Japanese Consulate in London a perfidious assasination came to pass. In order to avoid diplomatic affairs and to quickly solve this murder the responsible intelligence officer turns to Sherlock Holmes.

講談師の旭堂南湖が贈る古典怪談。名調子で語る「日本の怪談」ここにあり。

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郷田三郎はこの世の全てに面白さを感じることが無く退屈しきっていた。

Brought to you by Penguin Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, 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 fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From...

A classic mystery from Japan’s Queen of Crime, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Murder at Mount Fuji At an elegant hotel on a stormy night, travelling businessman Kohei Daigo meets a shadowy yet captivating woman, Fumiko. Their faces obscured in the darkness, they pass the hours by...

千葉県下で猟奇連続殺人事件が発生。絞殺された被害者は、いずれも手指を切断されていた。入社2年目の訪日新聞記者・永尾哲平は、取材で訪問した近隣住民・魚住優に不審感を覚える。一方、捜査一課の津崎庸介も魚住が被害者と同級生だったと知り捜査を進めるが、魚住は失踪。

英語のリスニング力を楽しみながら自然に身につけたい方へ本作は初級学習者のために書かれた英語のミステリー短編13話を収録したオーディオブックです毎晩同じ時刻に空き部屋の窓に灯る金色の光雨の後階段に現れる...

Brought to you by Penguin. A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime...

小泉八雲(ラフカディオ・ハーン)の怪談小説。死者の霊にとり憑かれた盲目の芳一を守るため、住職と納所とで芳一を裸にし、筆を以て芳一の、胸、背、頭、顔、頸、手足…、身体中どこといわず、足の裏にさえも般若心経というお経の文句を書きつけた。忘れた箇所はないのか…!?住職の言いつけどおり芳一は、縁側に坐り、迎えの霊が来ても、動きもせず、口も利かず静かに坐っていたが……。さて、うまく危険は回避することができたのか…?あまりにも有名な怪談の歴史的傑作『耳無芳一の話』をオーディオブックにしました! (C)2008青空文庫

Where would you go if you had to start over? Namiko Namimori is having the worst year of her life. She’s lost her job and her home and now must look to build a new life with just the clothes on her back. She takes refuge in her grandmother’s abandoned cottage in the sleepy rural town of...