#17 Detective Kosuke Kindaichi

The Little Sparrow Murders

Seishi Yokomizo
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An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arrived than a new series of murders strikes the village - several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that match the lyrics of an old local children's song... The legendary sleuth investigates, but soon realises must unravel the dark and tangled history of the village, as well as that of its rival families, to get to the truth.
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeJapanJapanese LiteratureMystery ThrillerClassicsMurder MysteryAudiobookThriller
320 Pages

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