Tokyo Express

Tokyo Express

By Seichō Matsumoto

Pages

176

Rating

3.68

Year

2025

Description

A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?

In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

Endorsements

“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.” — Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train.

“Japan’s Agatha Christie” — The Sunday Times.

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