In this fantasy novel, three young guys seek a temporary hideout in an abandoned general  when their car breaks down after they have committed a robbery at a rich woman’s house. Atsuya, Kohei, and Shota are planning to hide in the general store for the night. An envelope suddenly slides through the store’s mail slot, addressed to the Namiya General Store. The letter ...

Six Four, the sixth novel by Hideo Yokoyama but his first to get an English translation, is a Japanese Crime Literature phenomenon with rave reviews from around the world. In Japan, it sold over a million copies in the first six days after it was released. As I started reading it, I was increasingly caught in its grip. It is ...

I became a great fan of Keigo Higashino after reading Devotion of Suspect X more than five years ago. Since then, I have read Malice, Salvation of a Saint, Journey Under the Midnight Sun and A Midsummer’s Equation. I have been looking forward to read Naoko, his first book to be translated into English, for years. I kept a lookout ...

The Widow is lauded as the epitome of a tense read. Accolades such as “the big thriller of the year”, “the most buzzed about book of 2016”, “this year’s The Girl On The Train”, and “a book you’ll drop everything to whip through” have been heaped on this debut novel by Fiona Barton. Does the book deserve the accolades? It ...

Why did it have to end so soon? That was my lament after I finished the last page of Keigo Higashino’s “Malice” last night. It is an evocative page-turner that I can hardly put down once I started reading it and is definitely one of the most captivating books I have read this year. This is the fifth Keigo Higashino’s ...

Ever since I read his novel “The Devotion Of Suspect X” about four and a half years ago, Keigo Higashino has become one of my top favourite authors. I just love his master storytelling and the many unexpected twists as his plot unfolds. Keigo’s  writing is always very entertaining and well worth reading. It is little wonder that he has ...