Tag Archives: Japanese Crime Fiction

Malice by Keigo Higashino (book cover)
Malice Review: Higashino’s Masterclass in the Whydunit

A cool, clever whydunit that settles the question of who early and then peels back [...]

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (book cover)
The Devotion of Suspect X Review: A Cover-Up Built Like a Proof

A brilliant inverted mystery where you see the killing but not the cover-up; one of [...]

Out by Natsuo Kirino (book cover)
Out Review: Natsuo Kirino’s Brutal Night-Shift Noir

A grim, gripping Japanese noir about four factory women and a body, brilliant on work, [...]