After an island carnival of plague masks, a faceless baby is found wearing a Hannya mask. Ravens hang across a cornfield, a rookie cop's face keeps peeling away, and an Oni tattoo covers a man's back in a single night. Eleven stories, eleven detectives. Here, the mask takes the place of the face. The Hannya series begins with this book.
After the great catastrophe, everyone believed even crime had died out. Then a little girl's body was found in a green labyrinth. Seven detectives, seven dark case files: a graveyard town buried in lime fog, dialysis machines filling with formalin, the Pig City where no one finds their way. Every clue opens onto another labyrinth. What lies beneath the Hannya mask?
A seaside town where the air has turned red, snail shells crack underfoot and severed arms wash up against the God Rocks. Five detectives, five dark cases: an endless mirrored pyramid house, a swamp town sinking beneath the lotuses, hundreds of empty coffins drifting down a river. In these stories, even the purest flowers bloom in the swamp.
One detective sees the world at the wrong scale. One lives with a face that has sagged into a Hannya mask. A sack of bones, a singer dead on hunger strike and a ship's captain who committed hara-kiri all ask the same question: how far is the truth from the eye that looks at it? The fourth and final book in the Hannya detective series.
Eight years from retirement, Detective Sabe watches dead herring wash ashore in his whaling town. As the bodies pile up, a stranger appears in his pool: Helena, the killer snail that poisons other snails and sucks them dry. When the same snail crawls out of a victim's mouth, the spiral begins to tighten. Yiğit Kahraman's first novel, following the Hannya stories.
Twenty years after the catastrophe, in a town where the snow falls pink, Detective Shukalski hides the black spot in his right eye. Stork carcasses turn up on the rooftops, a human ear is found in the garden, and the deaths begin in his own building. As a black substance creeps up his leg, the sculpture of his own eye begins to seep a black fluid. Yiğit Kahraman's second crime novel.
In a southern Spanish town stained red by toppled wine tanks, Detective Ilona shares her cases with her two-faced sibling in a care home. At an engagement party, a human finger turns up in a guest's soup; the man dies and his little daughter vanishes. Every trail leads down the same spiral staircases and back to the care home. Yiğit Kahraman's third crime novel.