Tetsuya Honda

Books / Reviews Sep 2, 2017

'Soul Cage': Gritty crime tale is step forward for Tetsuya Honda

by Mark Schreiber

Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa heads a team of homicide investigators at Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters. They are dispatched to the city's gritty Ota Ward, where a human hand had been found without a body. From fingerprints, its owner is soon identified as Kenichi Takaoka, operator ...

Books / Reviews Jul 9, 2016

'The Silent Dead': A police procedural that works in strange, original ways

by Mark Schreiber

In this modern-day police procedural by Tetsuya Honda, homicide investigators are flummoxed by the discovery of two male corpses wrapped in blue plastic tarpaulins in, and near, a pond in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. When similar submerged bodies are found in Saitama, the pressure builds ...