Books like The Aosawa Murders
In the 1970s, seventeen people die from poisoned drinks at a family celebration at the Aosawa clinic in a coastal city on the Sea of Japan; decades later, the people who were there tell what they remember.
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.
The Honjin Murders
In the winter of 1937, on the wedding night of the eldest son of an old family in a village in Okayama, the household wakes to a scream and the notes of a koto, and finds the newlyweds dead in a locked annex surrounded by untouched snow.
The Decagon House Murders
Seven members of a university mystery club, who go by the names of famous crime writers, spend a week on a deserted island where a reclusive architect and his family died in a fire, staying in his ten-sided guest house.
Malice
A bestselling novelist is found murdered the night before he is due to move abroad, and Detective Kaga's case turns on the written account of the victim's oldest friend.
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Devotion of Suspect X
When a single mother kills her abusive ex-husband, her neighbour, a brilliant, lonely mathematics teacher, devises a cover-up, and a physicist friend of the investigating detective begins to suspect what his old classmate has done.
Old Bones
Gideon Oliver, the American forensic anthropologist known as the skeleton detective, is in Brittany when an old Breton patriarch drowns and bones turn up in his cellar.
The Midnight Feast
Guests gather for the opening of The Manor, a luxurious new retreat on the Dorset coast, and by the morning after the party a body has been found, as local legends and a long-buried grudge come to the surface.
Real World
One summer in suburban Tokyo, Toshi's neighbour, a teenage boy her friends call Worm, kills his mother and runs, taking Toshi's bicycle and mobile phone, and she and three school friends are each drawn in.
A Pale View of Hills
A Japanese woman living in England recalls her life in postwar Nagasaki, and the gaps in her story conceal a truth she cannot bear to face.
The Stranger Diaries
Clare Cassidy, an English teacher writing about a Victorian ghost-story writer, finds a colleague murdered with a line from his story beside her body, and someone writing in Clare's own diary.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.