17 Best fiction books like The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb…

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Cover of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada, Shika MacKenzie, Ross MacKenzie

1. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

By: Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a myste… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
"Art is not to copy the work of another; real art exists only in difference."

-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

"I'm a huge fan of mysteries; in fact, they're almost an addiction. If a week goes by without reading a mystery, I suffer withdrawal symptoms. Then I wander around like I'm sleepwalking and wake up in…"

-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Cover of The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Sōji Shimada, Ho-Ling Wong

2. The Decagon House Murders

By: Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly mu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto, Beth Cary

3. Inspector Imanishi Investigates

By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm

4. The Tattoo Murder Case

By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
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  • crime
  • japan

5. The Master Key

By: Masako Togawa , None

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more

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6. The Moai Island Puzzle

By: Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong , Alice Arisugawa

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In his introduction, Soji Shimada, the doyen of the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction k… read more

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7. A Midsummer's Equation

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popula… read more

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8. The Lady Killer

By: Masako Togawa

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ichiro Honda is a good-looking computer expert who works in Tokyo, lives in a respectable hotel, an… read more

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Cover of Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

9. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
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  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2) by Keigo Higashino

10. Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
"How come you don't ask me any questions?" "Questions about what?" "About the investigation I'm working on," Kaga replied. "It's usually the first thing people ask me when I make inquiries. 'What's ha…"

-Keigo Higashino, Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

Cover of Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4) by Keigo Higashino

11. Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
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Cover of A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino

12. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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  • japanese literature
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"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

Cover of The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama

13. The North Light

By: Hideo Yokoyama

3.82

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a pri… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2) by Yukito Ayatsuji

14. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

3.62

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
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  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
"A cold death mask worn by a living man."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

15. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

16. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Agenzia A by Seichō Matsumoto

17. Agenzia A

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Teiko e Kenichi Uhara, manager in un'agenzia pubblicitaria, si sono appena sposati. Subito dopo la … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

18. The Noh Mask Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2) by Sōji Shimada

19. Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)

By: Sōji Shimada

3.55

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Fūtarō Yamada

20. The Meiji Guillotine Murders

By: Fūtarō Yamada

3.34

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th centu… read more

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  • classics
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Third Love by Hiromi Kawakami

21. The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more

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  • japan
  • japanese literature
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16 best-selling mystery books like The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

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The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

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The Tattoo Murder Case

Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

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Black Plumes

Margery Allingham

4.50

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Tokyo Express

Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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