
Tokyo Express
A Novel
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 14, 2025
From “Japan's Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay.
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- Who it’s for
- A layered mystery with a serious tone and the clean snap of classic suspense.
- Genres
- International Crime Fiction, Japanese Fiction, British Mystery
- Published
- Random House Publishing Group, October 14, 2025
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From “Japan's Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?
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“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime. Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seichō Matsumoto’s masterpiece.
Quiet Tension
A layered mystery with a serious tone and the clean snap of classic suspense.
Come here for
- precise suspense
- prestige-leaning mystery
Expect
- international crime-fiction texture
- sustained, immersive reading
Where it sits
| Japanese Fiction | 62% |
|---|---|
| International Crime Fiction | 61% |
| British Mystery | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Mystery
- International Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood, Amor Towles
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- October 14, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction