The best way to describe Strange pictures is to invite you to think of ‘reels’ on Instagram or ‘shorts’ on Youtube. Every review I have seen of this work praises it greatly, and as far as mysteries go there is much to like in this novel. Alas there is more to a mystery novel than the retelling, no matter how clever. And in that sense Uketsu’s Strange Pictures stumbles: its pace barely lets up but in a bad way; it opens a door then quickly addresses it, it refuses to let readers sit ...
