American Fiction Awards finalist for Best Mystery NovelNational Indie Excellence Awards finalist for Best Suspense NovelA high-tech mystery that Kirkus Reviews calls "A thrilling crime drama that paints a shrewd portrait of Silicon Valley."At this Silicon Valley startup, murder is a feature, not a bug...SüprDüpr is the hottest startup in Silicon Valley until one o...

In a murdered woman's email, Ted Hara discovers the plan for a terrorist attack.When Ted hacks into the email of his girlfriend's best friend, he's shocked by what he finds-the last email she read moments before she was shot warned of a terrorist plot. But without her password, Ted is unable to open the attached document containing the terrorists' plans.The murdered woman, Joy Miyazaki, was the daughter of the congressman from Silicon Valley's Japantown. ...

This is a compact and convenient guide to learning the Kansai dialect of the Japanese languageMaido, maido and welcome to the Kansai region of western Japan. Whether visiting or living in this area, you will quickly notice the locals aren't speaking standard Japanese taught in textbooks and classrooms. The language on the streets is Kansai-ben: a dialect said to be earthier and more direct, but with its own polite language.With clear explanations o...

A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable.The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no ...

Through November, the complete season of The Cutting Room is just $0.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/the-cutting-room-5~In the future, there are many parallel Earths--but only one of them has time travel. Its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police.Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. But on a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he steps into ...

"Do you enjoy being the Black Rider who's been spotted all over Ikebukuro over the past few years now? Why is it that you're riding such a dangerous bike all over the place? Are you aware that you're violating the law?!" Ikebukuro, Tokyo. A place full of fires waiting to be lit and plenty of people ready to light a match: Twins who are the perfect opposite of each other. An idol who's nothing like her older brother. A girl with a crush on her senior in the Dollars. And a headless rider wit...

In Liquid Cool Book 5 its Alien Meets Blade Runner…It’s I, ALIEN HUNTER!Liquid Cool, the action-packed (and funny), cyberpunk detective series continues.Our private detective, Cruz, has dealt with all kinds of criminal crazies—full human, cyborgs and robots—and even crazier clients. But he has never had to deal with…extraterrestrials.Is this case more than a missing persons? Have humans on the Main Asteroid Belt between Mar...

Metropolis wasn’t a bad place, but it wasn’t a good one either.THESE MEAN STREETS, DARKLY is the prequel to the cyberpunk, detective series, LIQUID COOL.It’s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the “neon jungle.” Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the supercity, but so does crime.An average wom...

2026 NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNERWINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTIONWINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, 2026 LOCUS AWARDSTHE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERRecommended by New York Times Book Review• People • NPR • Rolling Stone• Los Angeles Times• Reader's Digest• and more!...

"What makes [this] novel so brilliant is an understanding of why women might willingly adhere to . . . performative femininity, even while they criticize it." ——Jo Hamya, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the international bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, "one of the most insightful and important writers of our time....[an] extraordinary exploration of relationships, work and the intimate connections that (may) make it al...

The "most clever plotter on the planet"(Publishers Weekly) Jeffery Deaver returns in this twisty new thriller, as forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs track a criminal with a bizarre and catastrophic m.o.—toppling the construction cranes in New York City.When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for th...

Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow--Radicalized is a timely novel comprised of four science fiction novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future.Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden...