Books like 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.
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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 ABC Murders
Poirot receives letters signed ABC announcing murders in alphabetical order, starting with Alice Ascher in Andover, and races to understand the killer's pattern before the next letter arrives.
Tokyo Express
The bodies of a ministry official and a young hostess are found on a beach in Fukuoka, an apparent lovers' suicide, but a veteran local detective and a young Tokyo inspector start to wonder about the train timetables.
Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
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.
Under the Midnight Sun
In 1973 in Osaka a pawnbroker is found murdered in an abandoned building, and the case stays open for twenty years as the lives of the victim's son and the suspect's daughter wind around each other.
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.
A Study in Scarlet
A murdered man, a coded message, and a poisoned pill draw Holmes and Watson into their first case together.
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.
Strange Houses
A writer drawn to the macabre is asked to look into a Tokyo house for sale whose floor plan has a space between its walls that no door reaches; he shows the plans to his architect friend Kurihara, who finds more that doesn't add up.
The Red Locked Room
Impossible-crime stories by one of the masters of the Japanese puzzle mystery, written in the 1950s and 60s, several featuring Chief Inspector Onitsura.
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.