A strange will pulls attorney Reiko Kenmochi into a huge inheritance dispute. With a forceful heroine and brisk dialogue, this legal mystery keeps the pages turning.

"My entire fortune goes to the person who killed me."

Set in a Japan split into multiple administrative zones after annexation by a neighboring country, the novel follows Yuka and intelligence officer Saiga as they flee from a kidnapping plot. It is a near-future action mystery with a distinctly dystopian edge.

A chase races across a divided Japan.

A Yakuza underling, the family running an auto-parts shop, and a girl tied to a religious group intersect around a single kidnapping case. The novel combines ensemble drama and a con-game structure in an abduction mystery.

Separate threads finally connect in a sweetly unsettling way.

A rookie reporter at the Yomiuri Shimbun’s social affairs desk investigates abnormal crow behavior and the possibility of bird flu. The novel turns a contemporary newsroom perspective into a bio-suspense mystery.

The crows attack. The reporter gives chase.

Makabe Ten, a misanthropic forensic pathologist, confronts the darkness surrounding child abuse cases and then a hanging corpse case that echoes his own past. The novel explores both forensic science and the psychology of family trauma.

A man who has spent his life looking at corpses is forced to face family darkness.

After giving up on becoming a botanist, a young man named Taiki meets Aoba, a girl who can hear the voices of plants, at a flower shop called Driad. Together they face memories tied to a sacred tree and the mysteries of the land. The novel has a quiet, gentle tone.

The voices of plants begin to speak of lost memories.

A company that has made side hustles mandatory becomes the scene of a presidential murder, and the head of the side-business promotion department teams up with a customer support manager to deal with the crisis. It is a corporate comedy mystery built around workplace dynamics.

Both work and crime keep multiplying like side jobs.