The Japanese crime writer Seichō Matsumoto has been experiencing something of a renaissance in recent years, largely due to the Penguin reissues of some of his fiction. Tokyo Express proved a hit with many readers, myself included, with Inspector Imanishi Investigates following suit, strengthening the interest in this writer’s work. Despite not publishing his first […]| JacquiWine's Journal
I found The Full Moon Coffee Shop to be a pleasant variation on an oft-repeated theme; so many Japanese books with cats as the central characters seem to have seized the market. While I like cats, I am not so fond of astrology, another theme within this book. But, there are other ideas within its pages that gave me pause.| Dolce Bellezza