A legendary female assassin in her mid-sixties, Hornclaw recognizes the effects of aging even as she pursues a target assigned by her organization. Set against Korean society, this noir novel explores age, violence, solitude, and survival.

A noir novel in which an aging legendary female assassin pursues a target while fighting for her own survival.

A gang that raided safe-deposit boxes vanished, leaving behind a mysterious body and a rat figurine. Three years later, as an international summit approaches, a person connected to it is murdered, and detective Washington Poe and analyst Tilly Bradshaw are ordered to investigate. As they follow clues linking the two crimes, a criminal scheme that threatens national security comes into view. The fourth Washington Poe novel.

Poe and Tilly pursue the connection between a robbery marked by a rat figurine and a murder tied to a summit.

London, 1930. Famed detective Rachel Savernake is shadowed by dark rumors. Jacob Flint, a journalist trying to expose her secrets, becomes entangled in baffling events, including a strange locked-room suicide and a death by fire during a stage performance. Is Rachel the culprit behind the connected crimes? The truth converges at Gallows Court.

Detective or devil? A journalist pursuing Rachel Savernake's secret is led to Gallows Court.

A short story collection about the loneliness and hope of people caught in crime and loss. It traces the ordinary lives left in the wake of violence with a restrained, lucid style.

The silences of wounded people rise in slightly different shapes from story to story.

A Holmes pastiche set in late-Qing Hong Kong, where the braided-hair detective Fu Er solves difficult cases. It combines the texture of historical fiction with the drive of a classic mystery.

Starting from the premise of Holmes in Hong Kong rather than London, the book brings a different detective figure to life.

A Chinese-language hard-boiled novel set in surveillance-saturated Taipei, following a depressed playwright and university professor, Wu Cheng, as he poses as a private detective and hunts a serial killer to clear his name.

From the backstreets of Taipei, a detective pursues the true killer.

High school student Pip uses a school research project to get closer to the truth behind a local disappearance, in a mystery that balances momentum with tension.

A school project becomes the key to a hidden truth.

A historical mystery that follows a poisoning case in 17th-century Oxford through the separate records of four narrators. It was published in two volumes, so it is handled without forcing a single bibliographic identifier.

Four voices illuminate one case from different angles.

A mystery in which a coming-of-age story about a girl who lives in the marshlands intertwines quietly with a suspicious death. The natural scenery and the accumulation of lonely time gradually bring the shape of the case into view.

Deep in the stillness of the marsh, the case lies in wait.

11月に去りし者 is an award-winning work by 加賀山卓朗. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

11月に去りし者 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

指名手配 is an award-winning work by 高橋恭美子. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

指名手配 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

Ran Yamada's Japanese translation of Anthony Horowitz's formal mystery novel combines a classic English village mystery with a contemporary publishing-world puzzle. Readers follow both Atticus Pund's case and the mystery surrounding the manuscript itself.

A double-layered mystery where homage to classic detective fiction meets a contemporary narrative trick.

The Japanese translation of the final Inspector Frost novel, in which Frost faces removal from Denton while pursuing a pile of cases.

The Japanese translation of the final Inspector Frost novel, in which Frost faces removal from Denton while pursuing a pile of cases.

その雪と血を is an award-winning work by 鈴木恵. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

その雪と血を looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

声 is an award-recognized work by 柳沢由実子. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

声 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

秘密 is a work by 青木純子 associated with the 翻訳ミステリー大賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

秘密 by 青木純子 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

11/22/63 is an award-recognized 翻訳小説 by スティーヴン・キング／白石朗訳. 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.

11/22/63 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

無罪 INNOCENT is a ミステリ by 二宮馨 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for 無罪 INNOCENT, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

忘れられた花園 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

A historical mystery tracing the centuries-long journey of a rare book through a conservator’s investigation and episodes from the past. The memories of those who protected the volume illuminate histories of war and persecution.

古書の来歴 by 森嶋マリ is recorded here at the work level from the award record.

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.