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Japanese crime, mystery and horror have hit their stride with English readers, offering a complement and counterpoint to "healing fiction."
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Japanese crime, mystery and horror have hit their stride with English readers, offering a complement and counterpoint to "healing fiction."
Here are four novels in translation to check out this month, all excellent for crime lovers. Enjoy! SeichЕЌ Matsumoto, The Quiet Place Translated by Louise Heal Kawaii (Modern Libr...
For readers of crime fiction, Keigo Higashino was much more than the bestselling author of The Devotion of Suspect X. He was a writer who transformed expectations of what a detecti...
One of Japan's greatest mystery writers has passed away, plus summer mystery recs, a podcast about a new heist mystery, and more.
There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel.
A pair of private investigators probes the murder of a colleague in Tetsuya Nakashima's challenging but rewarding film.
Japan, more than anywhere I know, runs along straight and well-determined lines, bringing you to where you need to be as smartly as a bullet-train. When A Quiet Place begins, we’re...
Here are 14 of the best books to be reissued this summer, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Yukito Ayatsuji, The Clock House Murders Translated by Ho-Ling Wong (Pushkin Vert...
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...
His works, which included “The Devotion of Suspect X,” were widely translated and adapted for the screen.
Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the e...
The Queen of Florida is a wickedly entertaining romp featuring retired widow June who delves into the deep underbelly of paradise—Boca—to get everything she knows she deserves. In...
Judging by the amount of submissions we receive for news and reviews, crime fiction is doing very well indeed. They say people are reading less… well they’re not reading less crime...
There are bodies everywhere in Araki’s lively fiction debut: bodies in the trunks of cars, on the side of the road and, most significantly for university student Haru, hanging from...
Here are three newly translated works of fiction from across the globe, along with one classic work of true crime (as Capote would say, a “nonfiction novel”). Keep an eye on the si...
Here are five great novels, newly translated. Enjoy! Minyoung Kan, Plant Lady translated by Shanna Tan (Berkley) Easily finished in an afternoon, Plant Lady is a gem of a thriller,...
I love a short story! And as a new mom, short stories are kind of all I can read right now. I love Jonathan Ames, and I just moved through The Double Life Is Twice as Good. And now...
The day my editor asked me to write a Women’s Fiction series I immediately said, Yes! Followed by, what’s Women’s Fiction? Isn’t all fiction Women’s Fiction? I mean, I read everyth...
If you can use some WTF premises in your reading life, these books range from crime novels to thrillers, with horror and sci-fi sprinkled in.
Higashino, a prolific writer lauded for his creativity, died of cancer, his official X account said.
Every so often, we have a week where all the authors whose new novels are included here in our news column are brand new to us. That could be because their books are debuts, but of...
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