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Murder at the Black Cat Cafe

By: Seishi Yokomizo, Bryan Karetnyk - Translator - translator
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer, Cindy Kay
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FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems . . .

In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal.

In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Café makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the café's black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the café's garden?

As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the café's enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?

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I really loved the other books in this series, but these mysteries (both of them) we're a bit flat. It's such a shame because the writer was incredibly talented and a master of the locked room murder mystery!

A bit disappointed

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it was amazing. twis and turns at every corner.
great if you like mistorys and murder. this was nothing like what I had expected
wow read again

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I love this series, but I think it is unfortunate that the narrator has been changed. Without any offence to the current ones, Akira Matsumoto was the heart of the audiobooks in this series.

The unique voices of the characters have been unfortunately replaced with a nothing-American accent that doesn’t even give the characters anything to separate them.

I didn’t realise a different narrator could have that impact, but something truly special has been lost without Akira’s storytelling.

A change of voice

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