Two non-series titles by Seicho Matsumoto have dropped to $1.99 fairly recently. I'd not heard of Matsumoto, so here is a bit from the webpage for one of the books:
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Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, Points and Lines, sold over a million copies in Japan. Vessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.
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I'm usually not into thrillers, much less psychological thrillers (as one of the books is described), but when I read the blurbs for these two books, they don't sound all that thriller-ish to me, but more mystery-ish. So, I'm debating...
In the meantime, here's info for the two books:
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
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https://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Ima...dp/B003P2WETK/
Spoiler:
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In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved.
But Imanishi is dissatisfied, and a series of coincidences lead him back to the case. Why did a young woman scatter pieces of white paper out of the window of a train? Why did a bar girl leave for home right after Imanishi spoke to her? Why did an actor, on the verge of telling Imanishi something important, drop dead of a heart attack? What can a group of nouveau young artists possibly have to do with the murder of a quiet and “saintly” provincial old ex-policemen? Inspector Imanishi investigates.
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A Quiet Place
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Place-S...dp/B01DV1YH8U/