The Devil's Whisper
8 best books like The Devil's Whisper (Miyuki Miyabe): Journey Under the Midnight Sun, Inspector Imanishi Investigates, A Midsummer's Equation, Points and Lines, The Silent Dead, 新参者 [Shinzanmono], Naoko, Schoolgirl
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
| Author | Keigo Higashino |
| ISBN | 1408704110 |
When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating...
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
| Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1569470197 |
In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim’s face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word...
| Author | Keigo Higashino |
| ISBN | 1250027926 |
Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed...
| Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 4770009372 |
This is my third Matsumoto and I'm beginning to see patterns emerging in his mystieries: he has an interest in Japanese government ministries; his sleuths solve mysteries through dogged perseverance; he has a fascination with train timetables; clues left in newspaper articles and on ticket stubs...
| Author | Tetsuya Honda |
| ISBN | 1250061598 |
When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this...
| Author | Keigo Higashino |
| ISBN | 4062157713 |
Newcomer is a translated Japanese murder mystery. It is the 8th in the series, but doesn’t matter if you start here as the main character, Sergeant Kyochiro Kaga, is new to the Tokyo police force. Kaga is assigned a murder case about a 45 year old divorced woman. His style is like that of Colombo - kind...
| Author | Keigo Higashino |
| ISBN | 1932234071 |
Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanese writer, one of their best-sellng.
An...
| Author | Osamu Dazai |
| ISBN | 1935548085 |
Mornings are torture.
Glasses are like ghost
Words don’t come easy out of your mind and those exact ones which may express what we actually feel are even harder to come by; to have congruity between our thoughts and our words is a rare skill. However, one may not able to put forth the...
