Zum Hauptinhalt springen Zur Suche springen Zur Hauptnavigation springen
Beschreibung
A cram school. A murdered teacher. A city full of secrets.

Eighteen-year-old Mana is desperate to escape failure in Japan's unforgiving exam culture. After a year of defeat, she throws herself into sleepless nights at a Tokyo cram school. But one late night, a study break changes everything. Her teacher-the man who gave her hope-lies murdered in a classroom. Suddenly, Mana isn't chasing test scores. She's fighting for her life.

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu, a forensic accountant assigned to homicide, is thrust into the investigation. The classroom tragedy spirals into a labyrinth of financial deceptions and power struggles within Japan's billion-yen education machine. The media is ready to condemn Mana. Bureaucrats are eager for a scapegoat. The new homicide chief wants a win. Hiroshi learns that in Tokyo's high-pressure exam world, truth is the hardest test of all.

Fast-paced, atmospheric, and insightful, Tokyo Juku is a gripping Tokyo crime thriller-perfect for fans of gritty mysteries, layered characters, detective novels, and the collision of youth and corruption in modern Japan.

"Pronko's knowledge of Japanese life is simply extraordinary-with painstaking care, he limns its shadowy contours and ambiguities." KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Pronko lives, breathes, and captures the streets and culture of Tokyo." MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
A cram school. A murdered teacher. A city full of secrets.

Eighteen-year-old Mana is desperate to escape failure in Japan's unforgiving exam culture. After a year of defeat, she throws herself into sleepless nights at a Tokyo cram school. But one late night, a study break changes everything. Her teacher-the man who gave her hope-lies murdered in a classroom. Suddenly, Mana isn't chasing test scores. She's fighting for her life.

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu, a forensic accountant assigned to homicide, is thrust into the investigation. The classroom tragedy spirals into a labyrinth of financial deceptions and power struggles within Japan's billion-yen education machine. The media is ready to condemn Mana. Bureaucrats are eager for a scapegoat. The new homicide chief wants a win. Hiroshi learns that in Tokyo's high-pressure exam world, truth is the hardest test of all.

Fast-paced, atmospheric, and insightful, Tokyo Juku is a gripping Tokyo crime thriller-perfect for fans of gritty mysteries, layered characters, detective novels, and the collision of youth and corruption in modern Japan.

"Pronko's knowledge of Japanese life is simply extraordinary-with painstaking care, he limns its shadowy contours and ambiguities." KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Pronko lives, breathes, and captures the streets and culture of Tokyo." MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
Über den Autor
Award-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist Michael Pronko has nearly thirty years of experience writing about jazz and Japan for Tokyo Q, The Japan Times, [...], Jazznin, and other publications. He contributed a chapter on Japanese jazz to The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2021) and to The Jazz Omnibus (2024) collection of the Jazz Journalists Association. He runs the Jazz in Japan website with reviews, previews, essays, and interviews. He's also the author of the award-winning Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi mystery series and the acclaimed Tokyo Moments series.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Detective Hiroshi Series
ISBN-13: 9781942410393
ISBN-10: 1942410395
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pronko, Michael
Hersteller: Raked Gravel Press
Detective Hiroshi Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Pronko
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2025
Gewicht: 0,464 kg
Artikel-ID: 134173440

Ähnliche Produkte

Taschenbuch