Don’t you just love it when you find yourself down a internet rabbit hole?
This happened to me whilst I was waiting for tea to cook, must have spent hours on the Titan website looking at books, making lists and such, then I came across a Titan post on Instagram! HOLD THE PHONE!
Translated works?-check
A culture I have yet to really dip more than a toe in? Check!
One of my favourite genres? CHECK CHECK CHECK!
Huge thanks to @ab_reads on Insta for posting her #readsolutions to read more translated works, her picture was how I found out about Tetsuya Honda. The more I dig in Titan’s back catalogue, the more impressed I am -hey husband, I am absolutely going to need a bigger bookshelf! Check out my insta @booksinmyhallway to see why…..)
Have a look at these two Titan books and tell me you aren’t intrigued!
The SIlent Dead
When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally—his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the “what” or the “why” of this crime.
At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Homicide Division is young to have been made lieutenant, particularly because she lacks any kind of political or family connections. Despite barriers created by age, gender, and lack of connections, she is mentally tough, oblivious to danger, and has an impressive ability to solve crimes.
Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies, all wrapped in the same sort of plastic. Few of the bodies are identifiable, but the ones that are have no connection to each other. The only possible clue is a long shot lead to a website spoken only in whispers on the Internet, something on the dark web known as “Strawberry Night.”
But while she is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her… and she may very well have been marked as the next victim.
Soul Cage
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