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The 8 Mansion Murders
by Takemaru Abiko
he 8 Mansion, so called because its owner Kikuo Hachisuka, constructed it in the shape of a figure 8, is the scene of two gruesome crossbow murders. First Kikuo's son, and then another resident who witnessed the first murder, are slaughtered in seemingly impossible circumstances.
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
by Deepa Anappara
In an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home.
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The Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
In a first English-language translation of an award-winning work in Japan, a clever mathematics teacher orchestrates a cover-up after a confrontation between a violent man and his terror-stricken ex-wife results in the man’s accidental death.
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Clark and Division
by Naomi Hirahara
Released from a Japanese internment camp in 1944, Aki Ito moves to Chicago to be with her sister, Rose, only to lose her in subway train accident on the event of their reunion and vows to learn what really happened.
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Lemon
by Yæo-sæon Kwæon
Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.
In this piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel, a woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing.
Lemon loosely follows the structure of a detective novel. But finding the perpetrator is not the main objective here. Instead, the work explores grief and trauma, raising important questions about guilt, retribution, and the meaning of death and life
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The Boy Who Escaped Paradise
by Chæong-myæong Yi
Arrested after a body is found beside mathematical symbols written in blood, Gilmo, a North Korean national, is assigned to CIA operative Angela, who learns of his past in Pyongyang, where he was imprisoned for his father's religious beliefs before using his math genius to escape and navigate the criminal underworld.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee
Relocating to Calcutta to head a new police force after traumatizing World War I experiences, a former Scotland Yard detective is caught up in a high-profile murder investigation that threatens to destabilize a city already struggling with political insurgency.
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Death of a Red Heroine
by Xiaolong Qiu
Inspector Chen must battle the political climate of Shanghai and seek the help of a former lover in order to solve the murder of a National Model Worker who was a celebrity of utmost probity.
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Shinjū
by Laura Joh Rowland
In seventeenth-century Japan, Sano Ichiro, a teacher and detective, investigates the ritual "suicide" drownings of a peasant and a noblewoman, supposedly star-crossed lovers, and uncovers an intricate plot of political intrigue and murder. By the author of The Samurai's Wife. Reissue.
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
by Soji Shimada
Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a macabre murder 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
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Lady Joker. Volume One
by Kaoru Takamura
The English-language debut of the Japanese modern master tells the story of five men who meet weekly at the racetrack and whose disaffection with their lives causes them to conspire on a kidnapping to extract blood money from corrupt financiers.
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The Story of My Assassins
by Tarun J. Tejpal
Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he's started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderers--a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs--and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why? But the investigation forces him to reexamine his own life, too--to confront his own notion of himself, his job, and his treatment of the women in his life, as well as his own complex feelings about the country that crafted his would-be killers.
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Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
A Tokyo press officer attached to the cold case of a 7-year-old's abduction 14 years earlier investigates a disturbing anomaly, only to be stymied by an unimaginable discovery. By an internationally best-selling author.
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Death Notice
by Haohui Zhou
An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach.
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