Japanese Mystery

Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche - what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

In “Time Of Deception” by D.M. Sorlie, readers are transported back in time to witness the life of a young girl whose future is forever altered by an explosion in Fiji. Left homeless, she is taken under the care of her Uncle Yoshi, who resides in San Francisco. Under his guidance, the girl, named Sue Lee Ono, blossoms into a brilliant young woman with an exceptional talent for languages, having graduated from Stanford University. However, the tranquility of Sue Lee’s life was shattered when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. As a code breaker, she is thrust into the ...

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on 10 of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian.

DIAMONDS – EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR’S WORTH. ARE THEY STILL WAITING IN THEIR SECRET PLACE? It was the Japanese Zeroes which brought terror and death and destruction to the peaceful pearling town of Broome in 1942. It was the partners on the pearl lugger Lucinda who found the lone aircraft shot down by the Zeros, and the diamonds. It was the diamonds which viciously dissolved that partnership and allowed themselves to be hidden in the secret place. And now the sons of those partners each race to claim those diamonds, the crying stones. With mistrust fighting hate and with anger curbed by ...

Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes. A mean teacher is found with scissors in her neck, and Takeo Kayama, the sexy billionaire heir to the school, considers Rei's aunt the main suspect.

In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries. Later that night, Ambassador Toda is shot and killed in his office and Cyrus Barker is discovered across the street, watching the very same office, in possession of a revolver with one spent cartridge.

「あたしを?このあたしの器量が気に入ったから嫁にほしいっていうんですか?」 不器量で大女、貧しい棒手振りの娘・お信に舞い込んだのは、美男で有名な木屋の繁太郎との縁談だった!困惑しつつも嫁入りした彼女は、木屋の人々の不可解な言動を目の当たりにし、何かがおかしいと感じ始めるのだが……!?数々の時代劇小説を発表し続ける宮部みゆきの傑作短編集「幻色江戸ごよみ」(新潮社)から、読者に圧倒的な支持を受ける「器量のぞみ」をオーディオブック化しました。朗読は、コメディーからシリアスまで幅広い演技で知られる女優・斉藤由貴。軽やかで優しい声音で、聴き手を物語の世界に引き込みます。怪談なのに、くすりと笑える。怪談だけど、涙がこぼれる。宮部みゆき作品ならではの“人情怪談”をお楽しみください。

The Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles. Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue leads him to a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface.

悲しい事件を機に故郷を離れ、叔父の営む袋物店・三島屋に預けられたおちか。彼女は「変わり百物語」として、人々から江戸市中の不思議な話を聞き集めていた。ある日、ひどくやつれたひとりの男が三島屋を訪ね、おちかに話を聞いてほしいと懇願する。番頭の八十吉は、男の尋常でない様子に不安を覚えるが、おちかは必死の訴えに心を動かされ、彼の話を聞くことを決めた。元差配だという男は、自身の過去を訥々と語る。勝気な一人娘、おもんのこと。店子の看板屋夫婦が拾った物言わぬ捨て子・末吉の、奇妙な“泣き癖”のこと。だが、おもんが片恋に破れたとき、惨劇の幕が上がる……。宮部みゆきの「三島屋変調百物語」シリーズ第3弾「泣き童子」より、表題作をオーディオブック化。朗読は、出演作により大きくイメージを変える名優・平田満です。末吉が突如泣く、その理由は何なのか。真実が明らかになるとき、物語は衝撃のクライマックスに向けて一気に加速します。人間の恐ろしさと哀しさ、断ち切れぬ業を鮮やかに描き出す宮部みゆきワールドを、存分に味わってください。

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied.

神無月、毎年かならず一度だけ行われる押し込みがある。黒装束、黒ずきんに身を包んだその男が脅し取るのは、その場にある現金のみ。襲われる家はばらばらで、共通点も見つからない。欲をかかない鮮やかな手口が特徴の、年に一度の強盗。その最後の現場には、なぜか小豆の粒が落ちていた……。奇妙な押し込みが、同じ人間によるものだと気づいた岡っ引き。病弱な娘のため、良心を押し殺して盗みを働く父親。追う男と追われる男、2人の男それぞれの胸の内とは?現代を代表する作家の1人、宮部みゆきの時代劇短編集「幻色江戸ごよみ」(新潮社)から、ミステリーテイストの傑作短編「神無月」をオーディオブック化しました。朗読するのは、あらゆるジャンルの役柄を演じわけ、“300の顔を持つ男”の異名を持つ俳優・大杉漣。深みのある声が、2人の男の心情を濃やかに描き出します。苦く切なく、しかし温かい。涙なしには聞けない、江戸の一夜の物語をご堪能ください。

A witch violinist, Romance bubbling in the cauldron, the return of a ghost and fairy… Throw in an overprotective daddy and freaky mobsters getting in the way. FREE on Kindle Unlimited! I’m Sophie Rowling. Violinist, witch, and wholehearted believer in Magic and Happily Ever After. A terminal case of musician’s block and lost magic used to be my biggest problems. Dante Walker. Tall, cocky, and mysterious Mr. Wrong… who turns out to be the magical cure for my musician’s block. After rescuing me from murderous kidnappers, he ends up spending the night with me, in the same bed, and…...

長屋の“何でも屋”に舞い込んだ依頼は、木槌の物の怪退治!?深川三間町、八兵衛長屋の何でも屋・柳井源五郎右衛門は、ある日、娘の加奈から奇妙な頼みごとをされる。加奈が可愛がっている野良猫のタマは実は化け猫で、源五郎右衛門に話があるから聞いてやってほしいというのだ。半信半疑の源五郎右衛門だったが、ある夜、人間の姿に化けたタマが本当に訪ねてきた。あ然とする彼に、タマはさらに驚くべきことを告げる。 「悪さをする物の怪を、一匹、退治していただきたいんです――」 それは木槌の化け物、野槌。ある事件をきっかけに、人に仇なすようになった野槌を斬ってほしいという化け猫の依頼に、源五郎右衛門は……!?日本を代表するベストセラー作家・宮部みゆきの時代小説短編集「ばんば憑き」より、個性豊かな物の怪たちが登場する人気作をオーディオブック化。多彩な演技で人々を魅了し続ける名優・佐野史郎が朗読しました。軽妙ながらも胸に迫る切ない物語を、お楽しみください。

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, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

〈刑事ワシントン・ポー〉シリーズ待望の第5作！押し花を受け取った著名人が連続で殺される事件が起きた。捜査に挑むポーだったが、彼の同僚の病理学者が殺人容疑で逮捕され……

In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. Will the unluckiest assassin in the world will find things easier this time around? All he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. Then he attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?

――あんたには、姉さんがついてるから大丈夫よ。
死してなお妹を守ろうとする姉の心が、商家に潜む魔物に立ち向かう。
代々の主人が早死にすることと、奉公人へのしつけが厳しいことで有名な酒屋・兼子屋。
そこで働く女中・おさとが急死した。彼女に代わって、妹のおゆうが奉公に上がることになったが、兼子屋には、新入りの奉公人を店の「布団部屋」で一晩一人だけで寝かせる変わった習わしがあった。やがておゆうにも、布団部屋で過ごす夜がやってくる。そして彼女が見た悪夢とは……？
ベストセラー作家・宮部みゆきの短編集「あやし」から、「布団部屋」をオーディオブック化。朗読は、愛らしい声と豊かな表現力で様々な役を演じ分ける女優・前田亜季です。

During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas is a riveting exploration of the darkest—and best—parts of the human heart.