Tokyo Zodiac Murders

<b>One of <i>The Guardian</i>'s Top 10 Locked Room Mysteries</b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>An amateur detective races to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this bloody and bizarre Japanese crime novel with a twist hailed as one of the most original (<i>Daily Mail</i>).</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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'? <p/> With maps charts and other illustrations this story of magic and illusion--pieced together like a great stage tragedy--challenges the reader to unravel the mystery before the final curtain falls. <p/> This quintessential Japanese logic mystery--eerie gory and intriguing--combines the puzzle-solving of Golden Age Western detective fiction with elements of shocking horror and dark humor.