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 maps, charts, and other illustrations, this story of magic and illusion, pieced together like a great stage tragedy, challenges the reader to unravel the mystery before the final curtain. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders joins a new wave of Japanese murder mysteries being translated into English.

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Tue, 01/12/1981
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