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| | My thoughts on The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai.
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| | My rating: 3.5 / 5 :: Genre: Crime drama
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| | Set in 1958 this tightly plotted, precise and polished mystery/detective story is very set in its time. Tokyo Express by Seich? Matsumoto, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is a masterwork of minimalist craftsmanship. No detail is extraneous. No scene could be cut. The setting starts as a thriller more than a murder mystery, but...
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| The Kamogawa Food Detectives was a wonderful first novel read of 2024. Reminiscent of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, these series of connected short stories, broken into dishes, rather than chapters, is love letter to food and the memories and nostalgia it can evoke in our lives.