The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Inugami Curse is another book in the Detective Kindachi series by Seishi Yokomizo. It is set in post-war Japan in the 1940s. The wealthy head of the Inugami family dies of natural causes and his children and grandchildren gather for the reading of his will. The will contains a number of very unusual conditions for who will inherit the Inugami fortune, and this leads to a series of murders.

I really don’t want to say much more, for fear of spoiling it. But I will say that it is a very well constructed mystery with many clues and red herrings along the way. I really enjoyed reading it and I did not figure out the mystery before it was revealed by Detective Kindachi at the end of the book.

This is the second book of the series to be published in English. I definitely recommend it and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series as it becomes available in English.