Detective Hiroshi Tokyo
Series, Book 3
Mystery,
Thriller
Released: June 20, 2020
Publisher: Raked Gravel Press
Running from a life she
didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya,
a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo.
With her Bangkok street smarts,
and some stolen money, she stays ahead of
her former captors willing to do
anything to recover the computer she took.
After befriending Chiho, a
Japanese girl living in an internet café,
Sukanya makes plans to rid herself
of her pursuers, and her past,
forever.
Meanwhile, Detective
Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office
to investigate a porn studio where a brutal
triple murder took place. The
studio’s accounts point him in multiple
directions at once. Together with
ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school
Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the
killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts,
bayside docks and crowded squares,
straight into the underbelly of the global
economy.
As bodies wash up from
Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl at
the center of it all, whose name he doesn’t
even know. He uncovers a human
trafficking ring and cryptocurrency
scammers whose connections extend to the
highest levels of Tokyo’s power
elite.
Other Books in the
Detective Hiroshi Tokyo Series:
The Last Train
Detective Hiroshi Tokyo
Series, Book One
Published:
May 2017
Publisher:
Raked Gravel Press
In Tokyo, murder's easy to
hide.
Detective Hiroshi Shimizu
investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an
American businessman turns up dead, his
mentor Takamatsu calls him out to
the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from
a security camera video suggests
the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi
quickly learns how close homicide and
suicide can appear in a city full of
high-speed trains just a step--or a
push--away.
How do you find one woman
in the biggest city in the world?
Takamatsu drags Hiroshi out
to the hostess clubs and skyscraper offices of
Tokyo in search of the killer. Hiroshi goes
deeper and deeper into Tokyo's
intricate, perilous market for buying and
selling the most expensive land in
the world. He teams up with ex-sumo
wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo's
sacred temples, corporate offices and
industrial wastelands to find out why
one woman was driven to
murder.
The Moving
Blade
Detective Hiroshi Tokyo
Series, Book Two
Published: September
2018
Publisher: Raked Gravel Press
In Tokyo, the past is
present. And deadly.
When the top American
diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he
leaves more than a lifetime of successful
Japan-American negotiations. He
leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of
research, a lost keynote speech and a
tangled web of
relations.
When his alluring daughter,
Jamie, returns from America wanting answers,
finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi
Shimizu is dragged from the safe
confines of his office into the
street-level realities of Pacific Rim
politics.
A moving blade is hidden in
the blur of motion, felt but not
perceived.
With help from ex-sumo
wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer
from Tokyo's back alley bars to government
offices, through anti-nuke
protests to the gates of an American naval
base. When two more bodies turn
up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and
duty, violence or procedure,
before the killer silences his next
victim.
About the
Author
Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of
murder, memoir and music. His
writing about Tokyo life and his
character-driven mysteries have won awards
and five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews
selected his second novel, The Moving
Blade for their Best Books of 2018. The
Last Train won the Shelf Unbound
Competition for Best Independently
Published Book.
Michael also runs the
website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the vibrant jazz
scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. During his 20
years in Japan, he has written
about Japanese culture, art, society and
politics for Newsweek Japan, The
Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has
read his essays on NHK TV and done
programs for Nippon Television based on his
writings.
A philosophy major, Michael
traveled for years, ducking in and out of
graduate schools, before finishing his PhD
on Charles Dickens and film. He
finally settled in Tokyo as a professor of
American Literature at Meiji
Gakuin University. His seminars focus on
contemporary novels, short stories
and film
adaptations.
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