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Dopo il suicidio del cugino, Lino cerca rifugio nel giardino del nonno, tra coltivazioni di fiori rari e profumi familiari. Affascinata dal suo mondo, gli propone di creare un blog per raccontarlo. Il nonno accetta, ma con un'unica condizione: non pubblicare nulla su un certo fiore giallo che Lino ha notato in casa sua. Pochi giorni dopo, lui è morto. E il fiore è sparito. Spinta da un'ossessione crescente, Lino infrange la promessa e pubblica una foto del fiore.

Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime.

IL CAPOLAVORO DI UNO DEI MAGGIORI AUTORI DEL SOL LEVANTE, UN BESTSELLER DEFINITO IL DELITTO E CASTIGO GIAPPONESE. Il corpo di un avvocato noto in città viene trovato morto in una macchina. Sembra semplice per la polizia locale trovare il colpevole, visto che in poco tempo un uomo viene interrogato e poi indotto a confessare l'omicidio. Purtroppo, però, c'è una certa differenza tra l'arrestare qualcuno e il fare giustizia. E questa differenza è la molla che spinge i due protagonisti di questo romanzo a perseguire un'indagine che per le autorità competenti è già chiusa.

Es ist kurz vor Mitternacht, als drei junge Einbrecher in einen verlassenen Gemischtwarenladen eindringen, um nach ihrem Raubzug unterzutauchen. Doch Atsuya, Shota und Kohei wird keine ruhige Stunde bis zum Morgengrauen gewährt: Ein Brief wird von außen durch einen Schlitz in den Laden geworfen, obwohl in der Dunkelheit vor der Tür kein Mensch zu sehen ist.

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor.

Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder.

Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project.

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter.

Acclaimed best-selling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned-out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl; nearly 20 years ago, he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.

“From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only.” When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted former shopkeeper who devoted his waning years to offering thoughtful counsel to his correspondents.