Sōji Shimada / Ross MacKenzie …
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A bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genre.
Japan, 1936 an eccentric artist has been found dead, in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal a terrible plan to kill seven of his female relatives, but it is not until after the discovery of his body that the plan is apparently carried out: the women are killed and later found dismembered and buried across rural Japan.
A decade on, an illustrator and an astrologer set off around the country to solve the gruesome unsolved mystery of the Tokyo Zodiac Murders.
