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A selection of recent and must-read translated crime fiction
Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (trans.)
Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Kimura’s young son is in a coma thanks to Satoshi, and he’s tracked…
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Riku Onda, Alison Watts (trans.)
A desolate apartment in a Japanese city, a man and a woman about to spend their last night together. Each believes the other to be a killer, and is determined…
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Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (trans.)
A classic Japanese murder mystery inspired by the golden age of British crimewriting.
Arnaldur Indridason, Philip Roughton (trans.)
An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she’s been smuggling drugs, and now she’s gone missing.
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Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the fiendish Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries.
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Soji Shimada, Ross Mackenzie (trans.)
A bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genre
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Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (trans.)
From the bestselling Japanese author of The Devotion of Suspect X comes Malice, the most acclaimed novel in Higashino’s outstanding Detective Kaga series.
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Ranpo Edogawa, Ian Hughes (trans.)
A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction
A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind…
Juan Gomez-Jurado, Nick Caistor (trans.)
You’ve never met anyone like her …
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Soji Shimada, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
The sequel to the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders - a fiendish locked room mystery from the Japanese master of the genre
Kaoru Takamura, Allison Mark Powell (trans.), Marie Iida (trans.)
One of Japan’s great modern writers, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with Lady Joker, the million copy bestselling Japanese phenomenon.
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Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (trans.)
Vintage Japanese Classics - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list
Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis (trans.)
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series
Masako Togawa, Simon Grove (trans.)
A new edition of this prizewinning classic mystery from one of Japan’s best-loved crime writers.
Georges Simenon, Ros Schwartz (trans.)
A gripping new translation of Simenon’s cinematic tale of greed, guilt and the cruel workings of fate
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (trans.)
Meet Lisbeth Salander - the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
The girl with the dragon tatto returns. The iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
The iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
Fred Vargas, Siân Reynolds (trans.)
In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris…
Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett (trans.)
Two detectives narrate the aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher and provide an intimate look into the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery…
Henning Mankell, Stephen T. Murray (trans.)
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a…
Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time.
Joel Dicker, Sam Taylor (trans.)
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three…
