The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Av Soji Shimada

<b>One of <i>The Guardian</i>’s “Top 10 Locked Room Mysteries”</b><br><b></b><br><b>An amateur detective races against the clock to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this “bloody and bizarre” crime novel with a twist hailed as “one of the most original”—an unmissable triumph of Japanese literature (<i>Daily Mail</i>).</b><br><br> Astrologer, fortune teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years—in just one week. <br> <br> With the help of his freelance illustrator friend, Kiyoshi sets out to answer the questions that have haunted the country ever since: Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter, and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth, ‘the perfect woman’?<br> <br> With maps, charts, and other illustrations, this story of magic and illusion—pieced together like a great stage tragedy&md