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1) Malice
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Minotaur books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche--what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. A confessional diary implicates its reader in a heinous crime, and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed...
4) Tezcatlipoca
Author
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Yen On edition.
Physical Desc
508 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After war with a rival cartel, a drug lord meets a Japanese organ broker, and soon the two travel to Japan for a new business in the organ trade, but while there he takes a young, lonely boy under his wing, and the three lives gradually become entangled in a web of crime and violence.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
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