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Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion...At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is...

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in...

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks into an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the...

The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel. Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions,...

A disappearance and a tangled knot of sex and politics involving a stripper and Singapore’s former chief minister The year is 1966. The world is at a tipping point. The...

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries...

The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 It’s Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate…...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century Tokyo Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that...

THE WAGES OF CYNICISM A battle-tested project leader at PR firm Cyberplan and a slippery bachelor, Sakuma is smug self-regard personified. But when his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed...

Sometimes work can be murder... The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for… restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever...

NAMED ONE OF CRIMEREADS' MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME NOVELS OF 2022 It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it’s coming...

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing...

In Song Dynasty China, a young servant of a magistrate searches for the killers of a mentally-disabled boy shunned by the community China, during the Song Dynasty: In a small...

One man is caught up in a lethal global conspiracy in this explosive spy thriller.A LONG-LOST DAUGHTER. AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET. A LETHAL CONSPIRACY.Ex-Delta Force soldier Jack Ford is trying to...

‘Jia's playful mix of tradecraft, puzzle-solving and human folly brings an original twist to the spy fiction canon' — Sunday Times Five code-breakers gather in the mountains of China. Which...

A young woman in Hong Kong investigates her teenage sister's death. Gossip. Rumour. Revenge. Wun Wah Tower. Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong. When Siu-Man jumped from her window on the...

What if today was your last day... A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large... and he...

What happens when an innocent prank goes horribly wrong? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college — each different from the other yet inseparable — until that...

A hardboiled detective story that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological suspense of Dostoevsky Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only...

The monster is not always who you expect it to be... a reimagining of the Raja Bersiong legend; a coming-of-age story of an angst-ridden young man turning into a vampire,...

After her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirteen young women, a teen returns home to pick up the trail in this YA historical mystery from the author of The...

Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective...

From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The White Tiger Danny — Dhananjaya Rajaratnam — is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his...

A girl in a new country. A dark secret left behind. A dead body which might tell all. Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma...

'The queen of crime . . . You-Jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense' — Glamour'You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . one among the...

The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of...

Murder. Migrants. Mafia. A small-town girl from Malaysia goes to London's Chinatown to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that befell her childhood sweetheart. The shooting of her childhood friend...

Translated by Muhammad Haji A history of the Malay Peninsula and the islands of the Archipelago The Genealogy of Kings (Malay — Sulalat al-Salatin or Sejarah Melayu, is a literary...

Translated by Sam Malissa Five assassins find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will get to the last station alive? An...

Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark AwardWinner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical NovelWinner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel'Perveen Mistry is a...

Translated by Kalau AlmonyThe magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection.When Toru...

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950. For over a century,...

Things get personal for Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja Lily Wong in Hong Kong when she dives into the dangerous world of triads, romance, and corporate disaster during the height of the...

Someone approaches Keshav with a case that the police consider a hopeless one. Will he be able to crack it with his best friend, Saurabh? Keshav is desperately trying to...

When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident. It's the last day of term, and Yuko's last day...

The second psychological thriller from Trisha Sakhlecha, author of Your Truth or Mine? In politics there is always someone determined to reveal past secrets, and now a young Indian minister...

Set in Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, this evocative YA debut follows a sixteen-year-old indentured servant within the police bureau who becomes entangled in the politically-charged investigation into the murder of a...

Based on one of China's most famous online crime serials, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. For fans of Jo...

A seductive, disorienting, and wholly original story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. 'As cryptic and compelling as a...

*A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH* Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life...for better...

Before she was betrayed and left for dead, Tenny was many things: prodigal daughter of the Driftwood City underworld.Leader of the Thorn Orphans, the gang fighting for a better tomorrow....

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's...

A dark Chinese suspense thriller about teenage accountability, where no one is innocent, for fans of Keigo Higashino.THE PERFECT CRIME DOESN'T EXISTOne beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws...

Based on China's most famous online crime serial, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. The second book in China's bestselling...

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after...

Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars. Hongmei is the...

If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...Ramesh Kumar grew up...

THE THRILLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSEBombay, 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra...

In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut.In 1892, Bombay is the center...