Japanese Police

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Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder.

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

公安外事・倉島警部補シリーズ第2弾！いまもっとも旬な作家の超硬質アクションノベル

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

公安外事・倉島警部補シリーズ第1弾！元KGBの日露混血の殺し屋が日本に潜入した。彼を迎え撃つヤクザと警視庁外事課員。冷戦時代の大スキャンダルがやがて明らかに。

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

警部補に昇進した朝比奈由宇は、久しぶりに警視庁ＳＣＵ（特殊事件対策班）へ復帰した。そこへ特殊詐欺犯秋山の情報が入り、由宇は捜査を開始する。だが、銀座で秋山を尾行しているとき、爆発事件が発生。

東京新橋で銀行立て籠り事件が発生した。男性客が刺殺された後、犯人は逮捕されたが、被害者は40年前に成田闘争のデモで機動隊員を殺して手配され、公安に追われた男だった。その捜査に警視庁特殊事件対策班（ＳＣＵ）が動きだす。

人気急上昇中のバンドＦＯＴが、松本のライブ終了後の帰り道にツアーバスごと消えた。事故か？　誘拐か？　所属事務所は密かに警察に相談。警視庁ＳＣＵ（特殊事件対策班）の最上功太たちが担当を任された。

公安刑事・倉島の活躍を描くシリーズ第4弾！「ゼロ」の研修を受けた倉島に先輩公安マンの動向を探るオペレーションが課される。同じころ、全国紙の大物が転落死た。二つの事案は思いがけず繋がりを見せ始める。

公安外事・倉島警部補シリーズ第5弾！国益とプライドをかけた防諜戦争の行方は…？警視庁公安部警部補でエース候補の倉島は、外事一課と掛け持ちの形で作業班への移動を命じられた。

公安外事・倉島警部補シリーズ第3弾！公安捜査官の意地と誇りを見よ！殺人事件の捜査に呼ばれた公安部の倉島警部補は、日本人ではありえないプロの殺し屋の存在を感じる。

二年前に失踪して以来、行方の知れなかった女子高生バレリーから、両親に無事を知らせる手紙が届いた。彼女は生きているのか、としたらどこに？幾重にも張りめぐらせた論理の罠をかいくぐり、試行錯誤のすえにモース主任警部が到達した結論とは？

東京都内で連続殺人が発生。凶器は一致したものの、殺されたタクシー運転手やお年寄りに接点は全くなく、捜査は難航を極めた。

堂場瞬一の新訳でよみがえる警察小説の金字塔。87分署の面々が少年の取り違え誘拐事件を追う。