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- In Tokyo, murder's easy to hide.Winner 2018 Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published BookWinner 2017 Book Excellence Awards Best Mystery Solo MedalistWinner 2017 New Apple Awards for ExcellenceWinner 2018 Independent Press Award for Mystery and for Thriller Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo.
- Author(s): Michael Pronko
- 374 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers
- Series Name: Detective Hiroshi
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Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder.
Book Synopsis
In Tokyo, murder's easy to hide.
Winner 2018 Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published Book
Winner 2017 Book Excellence Awards Best Mystery Solo Medalist
Winner 2017 New Apple Awards for Excellence
Winner 2018 Independent Press Award for Mystery and for Thriller
Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step-or a push-away.
Hiroshi teams up with Takamatsu and ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo's sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman was driven to murder. After years in America and lost in neat, clean spreadsheets, Hiroshi confronts the stark realities of the biggest city in the world, where inside information can travel in a flash from the insiders at top investment firms to street-level punks and teenage hostesses. Hiroshi's determined to cut through Japan's ambiguities-and dangers-to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge-which just might be him.
"Gripping and suspenseful. 10 out of 10."-Booklife (by Publisher's Weekly)
The Last Train is the first book in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.
Review Quotes
"An absorbing investigation."-Kirkus Reviews
"Gripping and suspenseful. 10 out of 10."-Booklife (by Publisher's Weekly)
"A five-star detective read. It is unique, intriguing, and will hook the reader from beginning to end."-Reader Views
"For anyone who loves crime and cop novels, or Japanophiles in general, this is a terrific thriller."-Blue Ink Review
"This exotic crime thriller is a lightning-fast chase to the finish line that'll leave hearts pounding and pages turning."-Best Thrillers
"A well-paced and absorbing mystery, with quick action and a look at urban life, an utterly page-turning adventure."-Foreword Reviews
"Mystery readers will relish the progress of a detective torn between two cultures, the reader of Japanese literature will truly appreciate the depth of background."-Midwest Book Review
"Tokyo comes to vivid life in this taut thriller, an unrelenting portrayal of a strong female character and the heart-pounding search to find her."-Publishers Daily Reviews
"A heartfelt, thoughtful ode to a strange and beautiful city, in the way that so many classic detective novels are. Lyrically written, with plenty of suspense."-IndieReader