Masquerade and the Nameless Women (Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 46+
• 2021 - ?

Hitoshi Saeki, a detective at the Tomiji Yamanami Police Station, received a report of a burglary and headed for the mansion that towers over the hillside. However, during the investigation, a shocking fact was revealed. Shivering runs through the investigative team...!! 

• Vol: 1
• 1996

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.

• Vol: 1
• 2022

• Vol: 1
• 1926 - 1927

A staircase rises into the sky; white feathered “birds” speak in women’s voices and offer to serve as vehicles; clusters of naked men and women romp on slopes carpeted with rainbow-colored flowers. His fantastical utopia is filled with entrancing music and strange sweet odors, and nothing is ordinary, predictable, or boring. The novella reflected the new culture of mechanically produced simulated realities (movies, photographs, advertisements, stereoscopic and panoramic images) and focused on themes of the doppelganger and appropriated identities: its main character steals the identity of an acquaintance...

• Vol: 7+
• 2018 - ?

• Vol: 4
• 2014 - 2015

"I want to know all about detectives, but I have no desire to be a detective." Ever since the day a crooked detective's tip-off led to the murders of her family, Sasaki Rena has been bent on exacting vengeance. With this goal in mind she joins the Detective vs. Detectives Division of the Suma Research Company, whose goal is to crack down on unethical detectives.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 24
• 2020 - 2022

• Vol: 3
• 2016 - 2019

• Vol: 3; Ch: 14
• 2016 - 2017

• Vol: 1
• 2016