The Kamogawa Food Detectives

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 02/09/2024 - 4:02pm by Karen

The cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai has the tagline 'The Japanese Bestseller'. The cover is blue green with three white bowls with different blue decoration on them. They hold (from the top down) a liquid of some sort, a smiling contented looking ginger cat and noodles with chopsticks sitting across the bowl. There is a note at the bottom which says 'Translated by Jesse Kirkwood'

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main...Read more

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 06/06/2024 - 6:17pm by Karen

The book cover of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada has a red background with fading shoeprints, disappearing up the right hand side of the image. With the title of the novel in large black and green lettering, superimposed on the white lettering of the author's name.

Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years. Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter, and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth, the supreme woman? With...Read more

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