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Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

5 April, 2021

Translated by Sam Malissa — If you ever find yourself on a train in Japan it’s best you forget the premise of Kotaro Isaka’s latest crime fiction novel to appear in translation. In Bullet Train there are no less than five assassins on a high-speed…

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The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

By crimefictionlover

26 March, 2021

Crime fiction protagonists don’t need to blow the doors off like Jack Reacher, or come with brilliant minds and complex issues like just about half the detectives you can name. As Robert Goddard proves with The Fine Art of Invisible Detection, they can be utterly…

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Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

By nagaisayonara

8 July, 2020

Tokyo is a city like any other, except much much bigger. By some counts it ranks as the world’s largest city, and it’s a place Michael Pronko knows well, as proven by his writing on the subject, which includes his detective Hiroshi mystery books. Tokyo…

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The Aosawa Murders

By nagaisayonara

15 January, 2020

Written by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts — At the heart of The Aosawa Murders is a puzzle – who could have poisoned 17 people at a gathering at a house belonging to the Aosawa family, and who could have had a motive to…

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Giri/Haji – new BBC drama with a Japenese edge

By DeathBecomesHer

15 October, 2019

Remember how Robert Mitchum when to Japan in The Yakuza? Or how Michael Douglas was an American in Tokyo in Black Rain? Well, the BBC is set to flip that East-West crime fiction paradigm around. Giri/Haji is a fascinating new series that sees a Japanese…

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Falling From the Floating World by Nick Hurst

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 September, 2019

During the Edo period (1615-1868), The Floating World, or ukiyo, described a lifestyle and culture of pleasure-seeking, a world of entertainment and play in Japan’s three main cities – Edo (now Tokyo), Osaka and Kyoto. The centre of ukiyo was in the Yoshiwara district of Edo,…

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The top five crime films at Cannes 2019

By crimefictionlover

12 June, 2019

Our film noir correspondent Dennis Broe reveals a darker side of Asia as he reports on the best crime movies to emerge at this year’s Cannes Film Festival While some would argue that the main crime at Cannes this year was the refusal to allow…

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Newcomer by Keigo Higashino

By crimefictionlover

13 November, 2018

Translated by Giles Murray — The translations of The Devotion of Suspect X and Malice have put Japanese author Keigo Higashino on the map in English-speaking countries, at least among those who enjoy discovering crime books from other cultures around the world. In Malice, reviewed…

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Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

The Aosawa Murders

Giri/Haji – new BBC drama with a Japenese edge

Falling From the Floating World by Nick Hurst

The top five crime films at Cannes 2019

Newcomer by Keigo Higashino

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