Japanese Police

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers...

A novella with the quirkiness of Japanese mysteries and lingering suspense that grows with every page. They barely know each other, but their lives are about to entangle in unexpected ways. Paul, Krishna, Gloria, and Varsha have nothing in common. Only that they have time on their hands to take Spanish language classes and are free for an hour after it to hang around in a café. Over the course of three months, the four grow close to each other, sharing the joys and tribulations of their lives. Paul is lonely after his wife’s death and wanders about the city, collecting plants. Krishna is...

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.

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid...

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.

The definitive history of Japanese organized crime, from its origins in samurai-era black markets and gambling rings to the shadowy syndicates of the present Japan’s gangster groups, known collectively as the yakuza, are among the oldest underworld societies in the world. With military-style...

June Kato's burgeoning career as LA's top neurosurgeon gets turned upside down when she finds a dead body in her garden. Calling the cops brings accusations of murder and June ends up at the top of their suspect list. When a second victim is discovered too close to home, June is on the run--not from the culprit but to put an end to the madness before anyone else is slaughtered. Will June become the next victim as she goes on a thrill ride through the streets of LA when she comes face to face with the murderer?

Bridget Jones meets James Bond! What happens when you stumble in the arms of a gorgeous man with DANGER! written all over? Especially, when you're stuck in your worst magical eclipse? FREE on Kindle Unlimited! I’m Sophie Rowling. I used to be a world-renowned violinist, until my world was turned upside down. Following a freak accident in Paris, I can’t remember how to play the violin anymore. To make matters worse, I’m supposed to perform for my childhood teacher’s retirement party, which is just weeks away. Usually I would turn to my BFFs, Jackie the ghost and Allegra the violin ...

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.

After a brutal murder investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the hopefully sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. Iwata sets up shop as a private investigator. Approached by an old contact whose daughter has been murdered and the case laid to rest - unsolved - Iwata agrees to take on the case out of loyalty. But what seems initially like a cold-blooded murder takes a different turn when a homeless witness recalls the murderer’s parting words: “I’m sorry.”

警視庁捜査一課に所属する女性刑事・志々目春香と後輩の男性刑事・藤堂遥の〈ハルカ〉コンビ。新宿・大久保の古いマンションで若いベトナム人女性「リンダ」の死体が発見された。

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.

超記憶能力を持つ監察官の小田垣観月。彼女が統括する証拠品、押収品等保管庫、ブルー・ボックスにある膨大な数のキャビネットが、地震によって倒壊した。

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。

アイス・クイーンの異名を持つ東大２年の小田垣観月。そんな彼女に、銀座のナイトクラブのキャストとして店の内情を探れという依頼が舞い込んだ。

千葉県警刑事部捜査一課、高頭冴子班に所属する郡山が親しくしていた隣人、小湊母娘が銃殺遺体となって発見された。容疑者として在日米軍曹長スチュアート・ヒギンスが浮上するが、米軍の圧力、事を荒立てたくない自衛隊の介入により捜査は難航。

Echo - a man with a dead end job and a featureless life, begins to experience ...strange coincidences. It all begins when he stops one woman from being mugged on London Underground, soon to discover the womans father is a prominent foreign criminal. The thing is, none of them believe in coincidences and they start to dig into this boring mans identity and his past, piece by piece revealing who he is and why, for some, he is the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Unwittingly the man is drawn into an incredible world of espionage that is dangerous, absolutely hilarious and ...

証拠物の巨大保管庫ブルー・ボックスに君臨する監察官・小田垣観月に、得体のしれない人物が接触してくる。観月は軽くいなすが、相楽場と名乗るその男は、その後も監察官室のメンバーに接触し甘言を弄し始める。