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Nikkei Detective

Chapter Three—If I Had a Hammer

Read Chapter Two >> Some people read palms. Others read tea leaves. I like to read teeth. No, I’m not one of those weirdoes with ...

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Nikkei Detective

Chapter Two—All in the Family

Read Chapter One >> It turns out that the dead body discovered near the parking lot of Japanese Village Plaza in Los Angeles was not my ...

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Naomi Hirahara’s Murder on Bamboo Lane

Devoted readers of the Naomi Hirahara’s mystery novels might be dismayed to learn that her recently published book, Murder on Bamboo Lane, is not ...

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Nikkei Detective

Chapter One—False Confession

“I did it,” I tell them. I sit in a back room of the Little Tokyo Koban, a visitor’s center and community police outpost ...

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TAT MASTER - Part 3 of 3

Read Part 2 >>  I took me an hour to finally locate where Shawn Finche had been hospitalized. It was in the ICU at a Catholic ...

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TAT MASTER - Part 2 of 3

Read Part 1 >> I woke up the next morning with my throat parched. Was I coming down with something? My throat was the weakest part ...

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TAT MASTER - Part 1 of 3

“What’s your real name?” GEISHA GIRL asked, picking up my business card after I was finished with him. I named all my customers by ...

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The Last Days of Daikon Ashi

When my uncle in Tokyo spotted me in Narita Airport in Japan, he almost breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, you are like the old ...

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Naomi Hirahara, author of “Mas Arai” mystery novels

I’ve always been a fan of detective and crime mystery fiction, starting from my earliest days devouring the Hardy Boys and Three Investigators books ...

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Naomi Hirahara – Strawberry Yellow

Fans of Naomi Hirahara should prepare to turn off their cell phones and curl up in their favorite reading chair. Their most beloved detective, Mas ...