In Istanbul, Inspector Onur and Chief Inspector Jan investigate the cryptic note left by a Japanese musician who died by suicide. Their inquiry uncovers tangled relationships within the local Japanese community and a connection to a series of women's fatal falls.

Against Istanbul's melancholy cityscape, one night's investigation brings hidden human ties into view.

Fuko, a seventeen-year-old courier, is hired to take researcher Yuriko Shima, an experimental biopharmaceutical, and its data to Suwa in Nagano Prefecture. As gangsters, a new religious group, and spies from another country pursue the cargo, the road journey draws her toward the dangerous truth concealed in the drug.

A transport mystery in which a seventeen-year-old courier races through a tightening pursuit to deliver a mysterious biopharmaceutical to Suwa.

In 1936, Mari Takiguchi leaves Japan's restrictive society to study geography in Hanoi, French Indochina. Through encounters with a foreign-ministry clerk, a trading-company man, and a military policeman, she confronts how colonial rule and war reshape people's lives.

A historical suspense novel in which Mari, determined to see the world as it truly is, seeks her own path in a Hanoi moving toward war.

In 1702, fraud flourishes in the principality of Neuenburg, where a large reward has been offered for the invention of a perpetual-motion machine. Mechanical examiner Theo Albert investigates the truth behind his father's execution on false charges while judging the authenticity of the machines, in this historical mystery.

Mechanical examiner Theo confronts fraud surrounding perpetual motion and the false accusation against his father.

A science-fiction mystery set in a near future of medical tech and virtual space, following the mystery around a vision-restoration surgery.

Between virtuality and reality, the truth behind the shadow threatening a girl comes into focus.

Against the backdrop of the Eastern Front, Serafima, a girl whose mother was killed, takes up a rifle and becomes a sniper. The novel traces the violence of war and the solidarity among women in a tense, forceful narrative.

A girl takes up a rifle for revenge.

A detective who has been turned into a robot vacuum cleaner races through the city of Otaru to protect his niece. The novel combines absurd premise, urgency, family bonds, and the momentum of an adventure story within a mystery framework.

A detective in the form of a vacuum cleaner runs through Otaru to protect his niece.

Set in 18th-century Versailles, the novel follows Princess Marie-Amélie as she is drawn into a murder case and uncovers court intrigue and mystery. It emphasizes the tension of an investigation unfolding beneath the splendor of the palace.

Set in 18th-century Versailles, the novel follows Princess Marie-Amélie as she is drawn into a murder case and uncovers court intrigue and mystery.

月の落とし子 is an award-winning work by 穂波了. It is presented here as the work associated with the アガサ・クリスティー賞.

An award-winning work by 穂波了: 月の落とし子.

A mystery novel about Shun Okamoto, a young man who drifts into Naha's waterborne shopping district over the Garb River and is drawn into a case involving a drowned body, U.S. military shadows, the CIA, and legends of the Ryukyu kings. Against the atmosphere of postwar Okinawa, it also follows a bereaved young man searching for a place to belong.

In a floating shopping district born from postwar disorder, a corpse, a legend, and the shadow of espionage begin to connect.

Misuzu Muraki's Mado kara Mieru Saisho no Mono is a quiet everyday mystery in which several lives in one town gradually overlap. Seemingly separate episodes involving a clinic, a painting, a cafe property, and a missing-person report form a carefully structured whole.

Four apparently separate lives quietly connect within a single town.

Masato Hino's Sessho Kanpaku no Kumo is a historical mystery centered on secret orders involving the tea utensil Hiragumo. Warrior Mai Hyogo is caught between competing powers around the Hidetsugu incident and forced to choose under pressure.

A secret order to find Hiragumo pulls a warrior into a vortex of power.

花を追え　仕立屋・琥珀と着物の迷宮 is an award-winning work by 春坂咲月. It is presented here as the work associated with the アガサ・クリスティー賞.

An award-winning work by 春坂咲月: 花を追え　仕立屋・琥珀と着物の迷宮.

うそつき、うそつき is an award-winning work that examines memory, social pressure, and the ways people try to understand themselves and others through its central situation.

うそつき、うそつき considers the relationship between individual lives and the society around them through the shape of an award-winning work.

しだれ桜恋心中 is a work by 松浦千恵美 known for its careful treatment of the themes described in the Japanese bibliographic record.

しだれ桜恋心中 is a work by 松浦千恵美 that continues to draw attention through its award history.

致死量未満の殺人 is an award-recognized ミステリー by 三沢陽一. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

致死量未満の殺人 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

In late-1920s Britain, Elliott attends an elite university as the stand-in for the son of a wealthy family. He also visits his blind, unrelated sister while pretending to be her biological brother. When the beautiful Sigmund Vertigo appears, the secrets surrounding Elliott and the hidden truth within an aristocratic family begin to unravel.

A gothic-tinged fantasy mystery set in 1920s Britain, following a young man living as a substitute and the secrets of an aristocratic family.

黒猫の遊歩あるいは美学講義 is a ミステリ小説 by 森晶麿. A mystery set against university lectures in aesthetics, combining detection with intellectual dialogue. The reasoning of the figure known as Black Cat links questions of art and beauty with the case.

黒猫の遊歩あるいは美学講義 builds its world around mystery.