United Kingdom: Little, Brown Book Group, 2015. 313pp, paperback. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by...
New York. Minotaur Books. 2017. One of the Detective Galileo novels, 358pp, paperback. Originally written by Keigo Higashino in Japanese, translated into English by Alexander O. Smith. Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard...
United Kingdom: Abacus. 2012. Originally published in Japanese as Yogisha X No Kenshin. This book was translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye J. Alexander. 440pp, paperback. Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears...
United Kingdom. Faber & Faber. 2013. 206pp, paperback. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his...
United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2008. 467pp, paperback. Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo. uriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect and commanded attention from older men. azue worked for...
United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2008. 208pp, paperback. In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There s dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret...
