Mami Suzuki: Private Eye
(By Simon Rowe)
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#1 Bestseller (Women Sleuths) — Amazon Japan, Singapore
Tokyo Weekender magazine — Autumn 2024 book club choice
Beneath the sheen of its orderly streets and obedient populace, all is not well in the port city of Kobe. Business is as brisk as the Haru-ichiban spring breeze for Mami Suzuki, hotel clerk by day, private investigator by night.
Who's stealing from Japan's biggest pearl trader? Where's the master sushi chef and why are his knives missing? How did the tea ceremony teacher's brother really die? And what does an island of cats have to do with a pregnant Shinto shrine maiden?
From the Kobe wharfs to the rugged Japan Sea coast, the subtropics of Okinawa, and a remote island community in the Seto Inland Sea, each new adventure ends with a universal truth - that there are two sides to every story of misfortune.
Praise for Mami Suzuki: Private Eye:
"Delicious and delightful—I’d travel with Mami Suzuki anywhere in Japan."
~ Naomi Hirahara
Edgar Award-winning author of the 'Mas Arai' mysteries and 'Clark and Division'
“Like all great mystery novels, Mami Suzuki is not about the who of a whodunnit but the exploration of why.”
~ Japonica
"Mami solves her cases through a combination of intuition and common sense, but it is her acute understanding of the human condition as much as her sleuthing that makes her such a compelling and likable character."
~ The Japan Times
"Mami Suzuki captured my heart"
~ Tina deBellegarde
Agatha Award nominee and author of Winter Witness and Dead Man's Leap
"A gently compelling, atmospheric feast of a book ... I couldn’t stop turning the pages"
~ Harini Nagendra
Author of The Bangalore Detectives Club — 2022 New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Beautifully written, beautifully evoked"
~ Lesley Downer, author of Geisha, Madame Sadayakko and The Last Concubine.
"Immensely enjoyable … takes us around Japan and into the shadows of modern Japanese society"
~ Bookish Asia
"Rowe's detective is something out of the ordinary"
~ Kyoto Journal
"Crisp, witty, intelligent … a clear cut above the average mystery"
~ Amy Chavez
Author of The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter
"For those who loved Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, try Japan!"
~ Katherine Govier
Author of Three Views of Crystal Water and The Printmaker’s Daughter
"A hard-boiled female detective with street smarts, and the adoring man who waits for her in bars. What's not to like?"
~ Deborah Iwabuchi
Minamimuki Translations
"Atmospheric and beguiling"
~ Crime Watch
"Suzuki is from the gentle art of persuasion end of the PI spectrum."
~ AustCrime”
