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Read Chapter Three >> A seventy-eight-year-old Japanese woman from Fukushima is found dead from a blow to the head in an alley next to Japanese Village …
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 strange …
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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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 another …
“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 on …
Read Part 2 >> I took me an hour to finally locate where Shawn Finche had been hospitalized. It was in the ICU at a …
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 …
“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 the …
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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 …
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 when …
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