Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Strangers on a Train
Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.
City of God
Three decades of the rise and war of the gangs of one Rio de Janeiro housing project, told from inside by a man who grew up in it and stripped fiction out of it.
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 Fatal Inversion
In the hot summer of 1976 a group of young people drifted through months at Wyvis Hall, a Suffolk country house one of them had inherited. Ten years later the bones of a woman and a child are dug up in its pet cemetery.
The Mermaids Singing
A killer is torturing and murdering men in Bradfield, a northern English city, and Dr Tony Hill, a psychologist brought in to profile him, works with Detective Inspector Carol Jordan as the killer starts to write about his work.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
Audition
A widowed Tokyo film producer holds a fake casting audition to find a second wife, and the quiet young woman he picks turns out to have a basement and a wire saw.
Confessions
On her last day of teaching, middle-school teacher Yuko Moriguchi tells her class that her four-year-old daughter's death at the school pool was no accident, that two of the students in the room killed her, and that she has already taken her revenge.
Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.