Japanese Fiction Thrillers

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    • Silent War Series, Book 1
    • By: Harry Homewood
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Series: Silent War, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • She was the USS Mako, as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific....

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    • Levi Yoder Series, Book 2
    • By: M.A. Rothman
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Series: Levi Yoder, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • As a member of a New York Mafia family, Levi Yoder's role is unique: He's a fixer, a solver of problems, a man whose code puts loyalty above all else, yet he's a man with a conscience....

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    • By: Naomi Hirahara
    • Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
    • Series: A Japantown Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Set in 1944 Chicago, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese-American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II....

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    • By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    • Narrated by: Russell D Jones
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Originally published in 1922 and translated by Takashi Kojima, this classic short story was the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, about the murder of a samurai....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa - translator
    • Narrated by: Pun Bandhu
    • Series: Assassins, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 795 ratings
    • A dark, satirical thriller by the best-selling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins....

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    • By: Sandra Dallas
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 731 ratings
    • During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers....

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    • Rei Shimura Mysteries Series, Book 3
    • By: Sujata Massey
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Series: Rei Shimura Mysteries, Book 3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes....

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    • Kyoichiro Kaga
    • By: Keigo Higashino
    • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
    • Series: The Kyoichiro Kaga Series, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • Acclaimed best-selling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver....

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    • By: Seishi Yokomizo
    • Narrated by: Akira Matsumoto
    • Series: Detective Kosuke Kindaichi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Colin O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A riveting technological thriller, Sunny follows a woman whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash and she is left alone with an unnerving home robot, only to get caught up in an AI-related conspiracy.

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    • Barker & Llewelyn, Book 9
    • By: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 9
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 875 ratings
    • In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office....

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    • By: Keiichiro Hirano, Eli K. P. William - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto....

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    • By: Ryu Murakami, Ralph McCarthy - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama is a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before. A striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past catches his eye, but she's not the innocent young woman he imagines her to be....

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    • A Mystery
    • By: Keigo Higashino
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: The Kyoichiro Kaga Series, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Newly arrived in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, but with a great deal of experience, Detective Kyochiro Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges....

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    • By: Nick Bradley
    • Narrated by: Hanako Footman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway....

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