BLUE LIGHT YOKOHAMA
Reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don’t want him and a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who’d rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or suspect. At the crime scene, they find puzzling ritualistic details. Black smudges. A strange incense smell. And a strange symbol — a large black sun. Iwata doesn’t know what the symbol means but he can hear it whispering to him: I am here. I am not finished.
As Iwata investigates, it becomes clear that these murders by the Black Sun Killer are not the first, nor will they be the last. As he tries to track down the history of black sun symbol, puzzle out the motive for the crime, and connect this to other murders, Iwata finds himself racing another clock — the superiors who are trying to have him removed for good.
Haunted by his own past, his inability to sleep, and a song, ‘Blue Light Yokohama,’ Iwata is at the center of a compelling, brilliantly moody, layered novel sure to be one of the most talked about debuts in 2017.
**Nominated by The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association alongside Don Winslow and Alan Drew for the T. JEFFERSON PARKER AWARD FOR MYSTERY**
**Nominated for the RT REVIEWERS' CHOICE BEST BOOK AWARD 2017 in the Mystery Category**
Countries of publication: UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Czechia and the Netherlands.
