FROM THE WORLD OF THE HONJIN MURDERS:JAPAN’S LEGENDARY DETECTIVE RETURNS IN A BLOODY, BRAIN-TWISTING WHODUNIT
Before Japanese crime fiction became a global phenomenon, there was Seishi Yokomizo. One of Japan’s most famous and best-loved mystery writers, Yokomizo created the legendary detective Kosuke Kindaichi, who went on to feature in an extraordinary seventy-seven mysteries. She Walks at Night is the latest addition to the beloved Kosuke Kindaichi Mysteries to reach English-language readers, following celebrated titles including The Honjin Murders, The Inugami Curse and The Village of Eight Graves. For readers who discovered Yokomizo through The Honjin Murders, this is another invitation into his wonderfully twisted world of impossible crimes, dark family histories and ingeniously constructed puzzles.
Fear hangs over the luxurious Furugami estate. At its centre is a family fractured by scandal, obsession and secrets, and the beautiful young Yachiyo Furugami, whose episodes of sleepwalking are shadowed by a series of cryptic letters warning her: ‘Walk not at night’. Then comes the first murder: a body decapitated with a centuries-old samurai sword. With suspicion falling in every direction, Kosuke Kindaichi must untangle a mystery steeped in madness, scandal and a terrifying curse before the killer strikes again. A wonderfully strange blend of Golden Age puzzle mystery, Gothic melodrama and distinctly Japanese atmosphere, She Walks at Night proves exactly why Yokomizo’s iconic detective series continues to captivate crime readers generations after it was first written.
