I’ve not read a Japanese mystery before, let alone a translated book , so when I saw this book at my local book shop I was intrigue. My previous experience with Japanese stories in the mysteries genre were mainly through animes like Detective School Q and Cased Close. I picked it up and found two good mysteries with ok writing. My favorite thing, is that Seishi Yokomizo tells you what the story is going to be about yet the journey is told in a way that when it came to the solution of this intriguing mystery, it still caught me off guard.  It’s a difficult trick to pull off. My only grip was that the writing feels a bit off. I’m not sure if it’s the translation, but there were time it didn’t quite flow.  There are times lines are smartly told in a way to make you believe it’s a thrown away detail, only for it to come back at the conclusion. However there are few times the word choices feels as if they were unsure what word to use. When it comes to mysteries, I enjoyed them to the point that I have now another author to keep an eye out for, and even longer to be read list.