Kuraudo no siro
Native title: クラウドの城
Translated title: Castle in the Cloud
Author: Ooya, Mutumi
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 456 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88600
The winner of the Newcomer Award at the 25th Japan Mystery Literature Award. The protagonist, former mercenary Kashima Joe, lost his girlfriend in a suicide bombing in Iraq and has been heartbroken since returning to Japan. Thanks to Kana, whom he met two years ago, Kashima gradually recovers and gets a job at a data center in Hokkaido, where a series of locked-room murders occur. Kashima must confront the killer
Sakin ha ki e ta!
Native title: 砂金は消えた！（上）
Translated title: The Gold Dust is Gone!
Series: Part 1
Author: Tuda, Mikio
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 184 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88616
The impact that a chance encounter can have on a person's destiny is immeasurable. This suspenseful story of misfortune is born from a chain of encounters!
The protagonist, Amano, refuses to take over the family warehouse business and sets off on a backpacking trip. He ends up in Burkina Faso, Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world. In recent years, gold deposits have been discovered, creating a gold panning boom.
Amano witnesses the tragic reality of children working deep in the mine shafts in search of food. Believing it his mission to support these children, he establishes a gold dust import company in Japan. However, the gold dust import business, which is run by mysterious people, is not as easy as he thought.
Will Amano be able to successfully launch his gold dust import business and fulfill his mission? This is a suspenseful business suspense story filled with money and intrigue
Jenda kuraimu
Native title: ジェンダー・クライム
Translated title: Gender Crime
Author: Tendo, Arata
Genre: Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 336 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88595
Everyone is a suspect. Everyone is involved. Sexual crimes...gender crimes are linked.
A man's body is found rolled at the bottom of an embankment. A message is left on his body, still bearing the scars of assault. 'An eye for an eye'.
The man's son was the perpetrator of a gang rape that occurred three years ago.
One after another, suspects appear, and a new murder occurs. You may be the one who should atone for your sins.
A monumental work that returns to Tendo Arata's roots!
Koikaze sitateya Oryu
Native title: 恋風 仕立屋お竜
Translated title: Koikaze - Tailor Oryu
Author: Okamoto, Satoru
Genre: Historical / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 288 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88589
On the request of the kimono store 'Tsuruya', Onryu went to Hakone. She was the only daughter of Tsuruya, who had a reputation for her good dexterity, but her father had broken up her relationship with a man she had fallen in love with, and she had been taking a hot-spring cure in Yumoto to heal her emotional wounds. Ochiyo meets Oryu, and her heart is relaxed, but when 'the man' shows up again, a storm of love breaks out. A masterpiece of historical fiction
Kyou hito tei no satuzin
Native title: 兇人邸の殺人
Translated title: Murder at the Villain's House
Author: Imamura, Masahiro
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 368 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88597
A 'villain's mansion' towers over an 'abandoned theme park'. Hamura Yuzuru and Kenzaki Hiruko, who entered the bizarre mansion late at night with a group searching for research materials from the Madarame Institute, were met by a ruthless decapitation killer. After a frantic night of fleeing, Hiruko goes missing while her companions are discovered headless one after the other. The survivors, each with their own agenda, are unable to choose a way out of the maze-like mansion. The possibility of another murderer also emerges... Can Hamura find Hiruko, solve the mystery together, and survive?
Ima ha tada hitomi wo to zi te
Native title: いまはただ瞳を閉じて
Translated title: Just Close Your Eyes Now
Author: Forster, Lori
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88591
Translated
Star, a woman who has recovered from a painful past 12 years ago, is making a living as a long-distance driver. During her rootless days traveling across the United States, she regularly stops off at a small bar in the mountains to rest. The owner, Cade, is a tall, muscular man with cold blue eyes. Star realizes that he is not just a bartender, and that, like her, he is harboring a big secret
Goka no ji / Haruki bunko ku 8-2
Translated title: Land of Hellfire
Author: Kusiki, Riu
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 328 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85533
In order to deal with a series of arson and murder cases that have occurred in the Kita Ward of Shogo City, L Prefecture, Kyoichiro Torigoe and other members of the Violent Crimes Unit of the First Investigative Division head to Shogo Kita Police Station. Kyoichiro, along with his 'partner' Karasu, pursues the suspicious individuals who have come under their investigation.
However, the day after the investigation begins, a second arson incident occurs, resulting in six more deaths... With the redevelopment being promoted by the ward mayor looming, people are captivated by the 'fire' that lurks within the land...
Can Kyoichiro uncover the secrets of a decades-long chain of bloodshed and a town shimmering with flames?
Row & Row
Author: Murayama, Yuka
Genre: Romance
Year: 2023 | Pages: 536 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85541
Ryoko, a 43-year-old working at an advertising agency in Tokyo, has been married for 13 years to her husband, Takayuki, a hairdresser three years her junior. While she harbors a subtle dissatisfaction with her daily life, she outwardly lives a peaceful existence. However, when she hires Midori, a woman in her twenties, as an assistant at her hair salon, a gradual wave of change begins to form... Unbeknownst to them, the two are separated by a 'deep river'. Can they ever row their way back together? A masterpiece novel that meticulously portrays the psychology of a married couple, and of men and women
Hakusen Igai, Fundara Out
Native title: 白線以外、踏んだらアウト
Translated title: If You Step on Anything Other Than the White Line, You're Out
Author: Tamaru, Masatomo
Genre: Short Stories / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 228 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88613
'If you step off the white line on the road, you will die', 'If you write the character 'person' three times on the palm of your hand and drink it, you will be relieved of tension', 'If you drop your food, it will be fine as long as you pick it up within three seconds', 'Ouch, ouch, go away', and other situations that everyone has probably heard somewhere are boldly arranged by modern short story master Masatomo Tamaru! The stories go from familiar settings to unexpected endings. A total of 10 fascinating short stories that will take you to a mysterious world in just 10 minutes per episode!
Kyoto Gion Momokichian's Amakara Cho
Native title: 京都祇園もも吉庵のあまから帖８
Translated title: Amakaracho from Momokichian in Gion, Kyoto
Series: Volume 8
Author: Siganai, Sasuhiro
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88609
Gion, Kyoto. At the end of Hanamikoji Street is Momokichi-an, a sweet shop.
Momokichi, the proprietress and former geisha who runs the shop, is visited by people with all sorts of troubles.
The hardships of a family who begs the taxi driver Mitsuko to 'follow the taxi in front', the reformation of a bank loan officer who learns how to 'read people' from the way they eat tea and sweets, and the quick thinking of a female secretary who changes the atmosphere of a contentious meeting...
This is a heartwarming story in which Momokichi's words gently comfort the people who gather in Gion, experiencing both joy and sorrow.
This is the 8th volume of the popular series
