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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Murder in the Crooked House

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 22/11/2022 - 12:00am by Karen

The book cover of Murder in the Crooked House by Sōji Shimada has the tagline 'A Classic Japanese Locked-Room Mystery'. The book has a red background with a figure walking away from the viewer in the centre distance. The author's name and book title are in off-white banners across the page that look like torn paper.

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in...Read more

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