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All She was Worth
by Miyuki Miyabe
Tokyo's Inspector Shunsake Honma investigates the case of a woman who may have murdered another in order to take her identity. A tale of credit …
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Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
The murders of two prostitutes in Tokyo allow an intimate look at the lives of girls and women in Japan.
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Winner of Japan's Grand Prix for Crime Fiction • Edgar Award …
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Dark Water
by Koji Suzuki
A haunting collection of short stories from Koji Suzuki, author of the smash thriller, Ring, which spawned the hit film and sequels. The first story …
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Battle Royale
by KĹŤshun Takami
This classic yet controversial Japanese novel is available for the first time in English--a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence that is a potent allegory …
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Strangers
by 山田太一
This book is a thinking man's ghost story in the vein of The Turn of the Screw, and its rich pathos should delight fans of …
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Naoko
by Keigo Higashino
Expertly interweaving the real and the unreal, Naoko involves a working man, Heisuke, whose wife dies in a bus accident. His young daughter survives, but …
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In the Miso Soup
by Ryu Murakami
"Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths." -- The New York Times From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director …
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Piercing
by Ryu Murakami
“Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.”—The New York Times A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott …
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) …
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The Tattoo Murder Case
by Akimitsu Takagi
Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is …
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Shadow Family
by Miyuki Miyabe
This is a murder mystery focusing on the dark world of internet chat roomsopulated by people attracted by the chance to be whoever they want …
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The Inugami Clan
by 横溝ćŁĺŹ˛
Dicovering the Inugami clan's secrets of forbidden passions, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities, private investigator Kosuke Kindaichi unravels the complex web of human relationships and …