Tattoo Murder Case - Akimitsu Takagi

I can’t say I’ve ever been tempted to get a tattoo, but if I did, I would go for a Japanese or Chinese design, because of the intricacy and colours of the design. I also love crime fiction, so the idea of reading a murder mystery about a woman with tattoos, particularly by a Japanese author, was too good to miss. On top of that, I’ve read a couple of pretty positive reviews about this book, so choosing this was a bit of a no brainer. It is just after the Second World War and Kenzo bumps into an old acquaintance of his. Through him, Kenzo meets Kinue, the daughter of a former tattoo artist, whose body is covered virtually from head to foot in a tattoo based on ...  Read the complete review

The inspiration for quite a lot of my reading material these days comes from Dooyoo. At present I have a list of nine books that I will get with my next Amazon voucher and all of these have come from reading a review on Dooyoo. Certainly this has helped widen the breadth of my reading and introduced me to new author who if I had been browsing the bookshelves of Waterstones I would not have looked twice at. The Tattoo Murder Case is an example of this as I purchased it after reading a review by IainWear which sparked my interest as it described a book based around the solving of a crime and in a setting which was a little different to the norm and one that I ...  Read the complete review

A friend of mine handed me a Christmas present one year, with the tag reading something like “knowing what you’re interested in, you’ll probably like this.” It is the kind of present only a close friend could have chosen, combining as it does my vague but long standing ambition to get a tattoo, my love for Japan following a trip there several years ago and my almost constant reading. Akimitsu Takagi’s “The Tattoo Murder Case” was originally published and set in a Japan recovering from the Second World War. In this time of suffering for the Japanese people in general, Kinue Nomura seems to have suffered more than most. Her brother was in the Army had never ...  Read the complete review