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  • Murder at the End of the World

    by Akane Araki ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
    **An unlikely duo embarks on a road trip to find a serial killer before the apocalypse in this prize-winning Japanese murder mystery.Perfectly blends the dystopian humor of Zombieland and the thrills of My Sister the Serial Killer!**From Japan’s most exciting new crime writer Akane Araki, this thrillingly funny, high-concept murder mystery follows a young woman and her driving instructor as they ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Murder at the End of the World

    by Akane Araki ...
    Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    An unlikely duo embarks on a road trip to find a serial killer before the apocalypse in this prize-winning Japanese murder mystery.Perfectly blends the dystopian humor of Zombieland and the thrills of My Sister the Serial Killer**!**From Japan's most exciting new crime writer Akane Araki, this thrillingly funny, high-concept murder mystery follows a young woman and her dri... ... Read more

    Was $35.72 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

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    She Walks at Night

    by Seishi Yokomizo ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    In this new addition to Seishi Yokomizo's bestselling Kosuke Kindaichi Mysteries, scruffy sleuth Kindaichi is called to the home of the aristocratic Furugami family, where in the midst of the Musashino countryside and enclosed on all sides by a long earthen wall, a gruesome scandal is brewing.At the center of the estate is the family patriarch: the drunken, sword-wielding father Tetsunoshin. His ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

    by Soji Shimada ...
    Translated by Ross Mackenzie, Shika Mackenzie ...
    Series Book 4 - Pushkin Vertigo
    One of The Guardian’s “Top 10 Locked Room Mysteries”An amateur detective races to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this “bloody and bizarre” Japanese crime novel with a twist hailed as “one of the most original” (Daily Mail).Astrologer, fortune teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years—in just one week.With the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Strange Buildings

    A Novel

    by Uketsu ...
    Series Book 3 - The Strange Series
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“I'm hooked on these chilling and twisted mysteries. Give me everything Uketsu writes - I'll read it in a single day, and I will not be accepting interruptions.” —Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of Among the Burning Flowers and The Priory of the Orange Tree"Uketsu is a disrupter, the master of quiet horror.” —Janice Hallett, internationally b ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • number9dream

    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

    by David Mitchell ...
    'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes'Spellbinding'INDEPENDENT'Exceptional'LITERARY REVIEW'Beautifully precise'GUARDIAN'Marvellous'OBSERVER'Constantly entert... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Mill House Murders

    The Classic Japanese Locked Room Mystery

    by Yukito Ayatsuji ...
    Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...
    Series Book 2 - The Bizarre House Mysteries
    ***Perfect for fans of Uketsu's Strange Pictures and Strange Houses*“A psychological-mystical thriller built on Agatha Christie-type stopwatch sequences and John Dickson Carr-style locked-room conundrums… No one can accuse Mr. Ayatsuji of not sustaining the eerie mood of his strange story until its very last sentence.” — The Wall Street JournalA hugely enjoyable, page-turning classic Japanese ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Lantern of Lost Memories

    by Sanaka Hiiragi ...
    From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife.The hands and pendulum of the old wooden clock on the wall were motionless. Hirasaka cocked his head to listen, but the silence inside the photo ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Thief

    by Fuminori Nakamura ...
    Translated by Satoko Izumo, Stephen Coates ...
    A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable.The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Before I Knew I Loved You

    A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café

    by Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...
    Series Book 6 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series
    **The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible – not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to time travel, and revisit the ones you love...**In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Lonely Castle in the Mirror

    by Mizuki Tsujimura ...
    Translated by Philip Gabriel ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!A Studio Ghibli-esque work of Japanese translation “that lays bare the anxieties and desperation—and the small triumphs—of adolescence” (Locus), for fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven.Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.**Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

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  • Out

    by Natsuo Kirino ...
    Translated by Stephen B. Snyder ...
    Series series Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Anniversary Edition
    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Winner of Japan's Grand Prix for Crime Fiction • Edgar Award Finalist • Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.**This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD