Japanese crime fiction

Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashion

By nagaisayonara

9 October, 2015

Translated by Alexander O Smith — It’s no exaggeration to say that Keigo Higashino is a phenomenon in Japan. Popular and multi-award winning, he’s been putting out books steadily for the past 30 years, which means there’s a rich vein of potential translations to mine. Journey Under…

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

By nagaisayonara

7 October, 2015

Translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie — Author Soji Shimada, whose groundbreaking 1981 novel has recently been translated afresh by Pushkin Press, is considered the godfather of the Shin-honkaku school of crime fiction in Japan. He inspired the New Orthodox group that aimed to return mystery fiction in…

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The Decagon House Murders

By crimefictionlover

6 October, 2015

Author Yukito Ayatsuji is part of a group that advocates the use of SS Van Dine’s set of ‘rules’ when it comes to writing crime novels. They’re not followed much by English writers anymore, but Japanese readers have a taste for Golden Age-style crime. Consequently,…

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First look: Journey Under the Midnight Sun

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2015

The Devotion of Suspect X is probably the go-to Japanese crime fiction book here in the West, but did you know that it has been outsold in Japan by another of author Keigo Higashino’s books? That book is Journey Under the Midnight Sun and this…

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The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

By nagaisayonara

9 August, 2015

Translated by Ho-Ling Wong — My advice to anyone who picks up this intriguing little pastiche of the Golden Age is don’t get too attached to any of the characters. There’s a good chance they’ll die. A very good chance. It’s become rare for a…

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Malice

By DavidPrestidge

19 January, 2015

Japanese sensation Keigo Higashino is back with his fourth novel in English translation – the first of his series following police detective Kyoichiro Kaga. Here popular author Kunihiko Hidaka is found dead in his home the day before he is due to leave the country….

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The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

By nagaisayonara

22 November, 2014

Translated by William Varteresian — Edogawa Rampo was the pen name of Taro Hirai, a Japanese author active from 1923 until his death in 1965. He is known as the father of Japanese detective fiction and his work – particularly his early writing – proved that…

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Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura

By nagaisayonara

17 October, 2014

Translated by Allison Markin Powell – The question of how art inspires and corrupts is something that drives the work of Japanese crime superstar Fuminori Nakamura, and the art is of the unconventional kind. In his first novel to be translated into English, The Thief,…

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Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashion

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

The Decagon House Murders

First look: Journey Under the Midnight Sun

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Malice

The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura

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