15 Best crime books like The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

Cover of The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill…

If you liked the crime plot in The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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

5. 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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6. 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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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa

7. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • japan
  • audiobook
Cover of Butter by Asako Yuzuki

8. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
  • audiobook
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino

9. 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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  • murder mystery
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
  • audiobook
"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

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

11. 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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  • murder mystery
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
  • audiobook
"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

12. 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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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
  • audiobook
Cover of Agenzia A by Seichō Matsumoto

13. 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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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

14. 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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  • murder mystery
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

15. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • japan
  • audiobook
Cover of Mysterious Setting by Kazushige Abe

16. Mysterious Setting

By: Kazushige Abe

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, fro… read more

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

17. 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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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

18. Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.90

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, these stories o… read more

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  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • japan
"Those pearl-white flowers swayed their heads by the feet of Lord Shakyamuni; and from their golden centres wafted unceasingly a wondrous fragrance surpassing all description. It must have been noon i…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

Cover of The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

19. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) book and Seishi Yokomizo's The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

  • murder mystery
  • japan
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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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  • murder mystery
  • japanese literature
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • 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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  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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