The Last Train by Michael Pronko

When an American businessman in Tokyo turns up dead—by train—Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called away from his white-collar crime investigations to help track down the killer. Together with ex-sumo wrestler, Sakaguchi, and on-the-edge mentor Takamatsu, Hiroshi scours Tokyo’s sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman would be driven to murder when she seems to have it all. Hiroshi’s determined to cut through Japan’s ambiguities—and dangers—to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge—which just might be him.

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Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of cross-cultural relations. When his daughter returns from America wanting answers, Detective Hiroshi is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics. Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo’s back alley bars to government offices, from anti-nuke protests to an American naval base. When more bodies turn up, Hiroshi finds out just why the past is still so deadly.

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