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Apr 15, 20231 min read
1058. Seichō Matsumoto - Tokyo Express
Bought this in Blackwells in Edinburgh. A Japanese detective novel, published in the late 1950’s and, apparently, never out of print,...
Dec 26, 20171 min read
562. Keigo Higashino - Salvation Of A Saint
Always a bad idea this, to binge read writers you have discovered and enjoy. This one is quite good but the plot is very monothematic -...
Dec 24, 20171 min read
561. Keigo Higashino - The Devotion Of Suspect X
I’d have enjoyed this much more on kindle had I realised that there was a paperback copy of my bookcase! I realised, mid-way through page...
Dec 19, 20171 min read
559. Keigo Higashino - A Midsummer's Equation
A rare trip to the library on Saturday. This is extremely good and he has written a few more. A sort of modern Japanese Miss Marple....
May 4, 20161 min read
395. Hideo Yokoyama - Six Four
A huge (+600 pages) book by a Japanese author, the first (of several) translated into English. There were two layers to the plot – a...
Jun 15, 20151 min read
313. Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque
Misleadingly packaged as a thriller (which it isn’t) this is the strangest book I've read on holiday. A very weird Japanese novel about...