Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood & Amor Towles

By Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood & Amor Towles

Release Date: 2025-10-14

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

4 (56 ratings)
From ā€œJapan's Agatha Christieā€ (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?

ā€œAn irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.ā€ā€”Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seichō Matsumoto’s masterpiece.

Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood & Amor Towles

By Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood & Amor Towles

Release Date: 2025-10-14

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

4 (56 ratings)
From ā€œJapan's Agatha Christieā€ (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?

ā€œAn irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.ā€ā€”Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seichō Matsumoto’s masterpiece.

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