(Read by Jeff Woodman, Macmillan Audio, 6 CDs, 7 hours and 30 minutes)
A bestselling Japanese novelist is found murdered in his locked office, in his locked house. A canny detective plays an intellectual cat-and-mouse game with a possible suspect, in a novel intriguingly different from most American crime fiction. Jeff Woodman is a seasoned narrator, but his accent does not sound Japanese. Grade: B
