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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s tough to keep cool when the heat is on Japanese-American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo: running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfreind. But when Rei overpays...
- Location(s): Tōhoku, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2011
When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan’s northeast coast, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is drawn into her most rugged adventure yet. The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei’s friend, the antiques dealer, Yasushi Ishida, who’s trapped among...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th century
47 Ronin is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. This set off a chain of events that...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): 1994
Intertwining elements of suspense and magical realism, award-winning literary debut RAINBIRDS opens with a murder and shines a spotlight on life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly done with graduate school when he receives news of his...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex. The bright lights and dark corners...
Not My Job – A Len Palmer Mystery (Book 2)
- Location(s): Japan, French Alps
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Please read the Len Palmer books in order. This is no.2, start with Snow Job Len Palmer, a ski-lift designer, is looking for work. After the disastrous end of the HiFly megalift (Snow Job – the first Len Palmer...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspired by the still unsolved murder of a Japanese family in 2000, Blue Light Yokohama is 2017’s most original and gripping crime debut . . . Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo’s homicide department, is...
The Book of Tokyo (Reading The World)
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young...
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