Beijing, 1920. Ichi-jo Go, an eighteen-year-old Japanese painter living in China, is hired as a teacher of ink painting for Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, a fifteen-year-old boy confined to the Forbidden City. Puyi secretly plans to replace the Forbidden City's ink masterpieces with forgeries and sell the originals to fund the restoration of the Qing. When a eunuch is found dead in a locked room, a dragon painting is mysteriously altered, and another eunuch loses all emotional expression, the young painter and the boy emperor join forces to unravel each enigma. As they solve the mysteries together, an unlikely friendship blossoms across all barriers of rank and nationality.

A historical mystery that transcends rank and nationality. A painter and an emperor confront the riddles hidden within the Forbidden City.

In a provincial hot spring town, women have been disappearing one after another, and a local urban legend takes hold: a monster with a gaping hole in its face is abducting people and swallowing them into the void. Private detective Honoka Takanashi is hired to investigate the creature called "Anadura-sama," and begins to suspect a serial killer lurking behind the myth. Meanwhile, the actual perpetrator faces an unforeseen complication: the yakuza have learned of the crimes and intend to exploit the killer as a corpse-disposal service. A crime novel that blends horror urban legend with mystery, building to a shocking twist.

A monster with a hole where its face should be is stealing people away -- and behind the urban legend lurks a real killer.

A rookie detective at Koganei Police Station, Midori Bamba, investigates a theft at a video arcade while arresting two young women for a series of car break-ins. Meanwhile, corrupt detective Tadayuki Kamei leaks information about a raid on an illegal establishment. The story interweaves Midori's coming-of-age as a detective determined to protect the dignity of victimized women with Kamei's downfall into corruption, building to a dramatic intersection at the climax.

An enthusiastic rookie female detective and a world-weary veteran corrupt detective — a refreshing police procedural in which the trajectories of two contrasting investigators dramatically intersect at the climax.

Koharu Ichikura, a first-year university student aspiring to become a manga artist, works part-time at a bakery called Nostimo in Toyonaka, Osaka. One day, her best friend abruptly cancels plans they had made together, prompting Koharu to use her sharp powers of observation to uncover the truth. A linked collection of five cozy mysteries set in and around a neighborhood bakery, featuring no deaths and a warm, slice-of-life atmosphere.

Mysteries layered like croissants, as exciting as curry bread!

A 200-year-old skeleton excavated in the Himalayas. When Nanase Yu, a graduate student specializing in genetic anthropology, conducts a DNA analysis, the results completely match those of his sister Aju, who went missing four years ago. Just as he is about to consult his supervisor Professor Ishimizaki about this inexplicable finding, the professor is murdered. The ancient skeleton is stolen and a member of the excavation team is attacked. As Yu pursues the truth behind his sister's disappearance and the skeleton's DNA, he is drawn into a massive conspiracy involving religious groups and pharmaceutical companies that could shake the very foundations of human history.

The compelling mystery and storytelling stand head and shoulders above the rest.

The 23rd Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award Hidden Gem Selection. High school student Furukawa lives in the Nanakusa dormitory at Mikohama High School. Together with his curious and kind-hearted classmate Ninose, he encounters a series of everyday mysteries: an umbrella left at a laundromat after a typhoon, a club application signed by someone deceased, an ice-cream-wielding thief, and a time capsule hidden in the dormitory. As they solve these puzzles, Furukawa is gradually led to confront his own past in this coming-of-age mystery story collection.

An umbrella left at a laundromat after a typhoon -- through unraveling mysteries, Furukawa gradually confronts his own past.

Set in 16th-century Holy Roman Empire, former law professor Rosen encounters a witch trial while traveling. Convinced of the innocence of a girl named Ann accused of using sorcery to kill a watermill manager, Rosen challenges the witch trial with logic and legal reasoning. A legal mystery about the power of reason against superstition.

Prove the absence of a witch -- a 16th-century legal suspense where logic clashes with faith.