Books like Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A masked intruder’s eerie music and a bloody samurai sword at a 1937 village wedding draw amateur sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi into a baffling murder mystery amid whispers of a sinister figure.

Fuminori Nakamura’s novel follows Toru Narazaki as he searches for his missing girlfriend and infiltrates a Tokyo cult, uncovering the psychological pull of extremism and the hidden violence that lies beneath charismatic gatherings.

Physicist‑turned‑detective Manabu Yukawa, known as "Detective Galileo," investigates a mysterious murder in the distressed seaside town of Hari Cove, where an underwater mining plan fuels both hope and conflict.

Samurai Matsuyama Kaze races through 17th‑century Edo to rescue a lord’s missing daughter trafficked into child prostitution, all while a manhunt targets him as the shogun’s would‑be assassin.

Rei Shimura, a Japanese-American antique dealer, is assigned to find and authenticate a lost ancient pitcher, but her investigation takes a deadly turn when a devastating typhoon hits Tokyo.

**What's the reason behind this sequence of grotesque and bloody murders and who is the ghastly murderer? These are the riddles that ace private eye Kosuke Kindaichi has to solve** >This is the first English translation of Yokomizo's haunting tale of murder and suspense, which began a series of over 80 books, famous in Japan, featuring the popular detective, Kosuke Kindaichi. His disorderly character and eccentric habits conceal razor-sharp deduction skills. In mid-1940s Japan, Sahei Inugami, wealthy head of the Inugami Group and "Silk King of Japan", dies in his lakeside villa at the venerable age of 81. In his youth, Sahei was rescued from poverty and an early death by a Shinto priest. However, upon Sahei's death, his debt of gratitude to the priest unleashes a bitter curse, triggering a chain of gruesome and bizarre murders as the members of the Inugami family are pitted against each other in a desperate contest for his fortune. Discovering the Inugami Clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities, Kindaichi must unravel the complex web of human relationships and passions that lie behind the murders.