Keigo Higashino
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 1
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English
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2023 Read Widely: East Asia
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OBD Mysteries Around the World - Adult
One Word Wonders (WPL-ADULT)
Found in Translation (SCPL)
OBD Mysteries Around the World - Adult
One Word Wonders (WPL-ADULT)
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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both...
2) Newcomer
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 2
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English
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Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 1
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English
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Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and Togashi ends up dead. Yasuko's next-door-neighbor Ishigami offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well.
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 4
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with...
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 3
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English
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"In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution. In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears...
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"From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only. When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted...
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 5
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English
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Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, an impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways. The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident - Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He'd been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad...
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 4
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English
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"Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery-several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence. A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted,...
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Deutsch
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Es ist kurz vor Mitternacht, als drei junge Einbrecher in einen verlassenen Gemischtwarenladen eindringen, um nach ihrem Raubzug unterzutauchen. Doch Atsuya, Shota und Kohei wird keine ruhige Stunde bis zum Morgengrauen gewährt: Ein Brief wird von außen durch einen Schlitz in den Laden geworfen, obwohl in der Dunkelheit vor der Tür kein Mensch zu sehen ist. Als ihn die erstaunten Kleinkriminellen öffnen, beginnt eine unglaubliche Geschichte, die...
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
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English
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When a man about to leave his wife is found murdered and the wife has a too-convenient alibi that convinces a smitten lead detective of her innocence, Professor Manubu Yukawa is tapped by a concerned Kaoru Utsumi to solve a seemingly impossible case.
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 3
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English
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"Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it...
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In an abandoned building in 1973 in Osaka, the body of a murdered man is found. Working quietly and methodically, Detective Sagasaki discovers two people who appear to have clear links to the crime -- Ryo, the uncommunicative son of the dead man, and Yukiho, the charming daughter of the man principally in the frame for the murder. Decades pass. The murder remains unsolved. Ryo and Yukiho continue with their lives, disappearing and reappearing through...
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Español
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Un asesinato que parace imposible, tan meticuloso como terrible, cometido por unos motivos aún más estremecedores. La víctima, Yoshitaka Mashiba, un rico empresario de Tokio, muere un domingo cuando está solo en su casa. Ha sido asesinado con una taza de café envenenado. Estaba a punto de abandonar a su esposa, Ayane Mashiba, que se convierte en la principal sospechosa. Pero Ayane tiene una férrea e irrefutable coartada: cuando su esposo...
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Dongye Guiwu zuo pin ji volume 42
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中文(繁體)
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你想過自己會在什麼樣的處境, 跨越那一條名為「殺人」的界線嗎? 東野圭吾──用七篇危險短篇, 引領我們審視自己心中黑暗的那一面。 2012年話題日劇《東野圭吾推理劇場》, 長澤雅美、妻夫木聰、篠原涼子等All Star陣容共襄盛舉 【故事簡介】 前途閃耀的高中少年從高牆一躍而下,留下悲慟的摯友和戀人解開背後的祕密。然而,殺人的重力卻來自最料想不到的地方.........










