Most volumes are relatively disconnected, each using a different narrator with only a few recurring characters.

Endo Masaki has a special power that can understand lies, and Kawabata Sayuri is a girl who never lies. And the school idol, Sakura Narumi is a girl who always lies.... more>>

One day, Kawabata's best friend, Kobayashi Misa dies. Although rumoured to have committed su*cide, Kawabata said,

"She was killed,"

and Sakura also lied,

"I was the one who killed her."

Masaki, who was asked by Kawabata to find out the truth, learns Sakura's heart that no one with that power knows.

A triangle story where desire, lies and love intersect. <<less

In front of a cedar tree with an interesting history on the premises of a shrine, a stabbed corpse was discovered. Though a suspect was found immediately, his testimony does not match up with the victim’s fatal injuries. Is this the tree’s curse…? Looking for the truth, Detective Gotou returns once more to the scene, only to meet Saitou Yakumo there, a university student who can see the spirits of the dead. It seems like he visited the shrine for another matter. Ahead of these two cases that curiously overlap… Starting a new series in this popular spiritual mystery!... more>>

A series of Shinrei Tantei Yakumo side stories.

1. the tree of deceit
2. the coffin of prayer
3. the tower of judgement <<less

Middle school teacher Takagishi Akemi’s interest is piqued by a boy who stands alone in the classroom. With sad eyes, he stays away from the others. His name is Saitou Yakumo. There is a rumor that he can ‘see ghosts’ so his classmates alienate him. Akemi tries her best to understand this lonely boy, but… the imminent shadow of the terrible incident, the utmost tragedy that awaits – how does Yakumo react!? Yakumo’s surprising past as told by Isshin makes Haruka cry – revealing his past, which was shrouded in mystery, a novel about Yakumo’s shocking childhood.... more>>

A prequel to the Shinrei Tantei Yakumo series. <<less

A mysterious letter of invitation, triggering the mystery of birth.... more>>

A well-known detective agency, the occurrence of countless mysteries.

Solve cases, look for clues to the mysterious organization.

Calm reasoning, to uncover the truth behind the mystery.

All darkness, conspiracy, under his strict reasoning, will have no place to hide.

All truth will eventually come to light! <<less

A newlywed couple are mu*dered in their bridal chamber on their wedding night leads to open fighting between Ouyang and Sima Manors. Amazing Constable Shen Ying personally takes on the case.... more>>

A gold hairpin holds the key to finally exposing the truth of this mu*der case…

The Bloody Bridal Chamber is Book #4 of Hong Kong author Ximen Ding’s Amazing Hawk Constables wuxia mystery series. <<less

A University student, Shouma Hanashima, unexpectedly came to be able to see strange apparitions. As this new obstacle shows up and Shouma becomes unable to attend lectures and work at his part-time job, he visits a suspicious detective agency with an inscription on its front, which says ‘Mysterious phenomenons? I will help you with anything’.... more>>

The head of the office is Tendou, a good looking man with a somewhat dubious impression.

Shouma gets an offer from Tendou, who explains that the true identity of these strange phenomenons are called the ‘kaii’ and that he could make a protection charm for Shouma, along with an invitation from the man to work and assist him.

It seems Tendou wants to find and put back the yokai into a book they accidentally escaped from, which he calls ‘The Collected Records’.

Together with Tendou and his collected yokai, Shouma gets dragged into strange incidents. <<less

"Bring me my wife. I'll pay any amount you want."... more>>

The Duke threw a wad of cash at me and entrusted me with a request.

"Did you have a contract marriage?"

"No."

"Were you previously in love with another woman?"

"Not at all."

"Could it be that your wife was pregnant...?"

"That's impossible."

What could it be then? I closed my eyes for a moment and thought deeply about it.
Ah, that one!

"The deadline! The madam doesn’t have much time left to live, does she?"
"How did you know?"

The Duke asked back in surprise.
Case closed, time limited runaway female lead.

"Don't worry. I'll find her for you."

'Wolf Detective Agency,' solves requests from men wanting to find their runaway wives, fiancées, girlfriends, daughters, etc.
Thanks to the influx of regretful men, our business is in full swing today.

***

The most important thing to be careful of when doing this job -
- Is not getting too involved with the main characters.

However, when I rescued a kidnapped child by chance...
Oh? Black hair? Oh? A handsome boy?

"Please take me with you."

Huh? Asking to be taken with me with those eyes full of wounds?

A law that hardly ever fails in this world.
There must surely be something more to a handsome boy with black-hair!
So I tried to send him back to how things were supposed to be originally unfolding somehow...

"You seem to be the type that demands a lot of work."

I met face to face with the cool eyes looking down at me.
Damon, who had grown so tall before I knew it, was holding my wrist.
I met cold eyes looking down at me.

"To the point it’s hard to take my eyes off you."

When did he grow so much? <<less

As an extraordinarily handsome young character, rookie police officer Akechi, along with middle-aged Kobayashi and other amusing companions, faces challenging cases. Will Akechi be able... more>> to solve these cases successfully? <<less

Okitegami Kyouko is a famous detective who solves cases in a single day. In fact, she has to, since her memories only last for one day before they ‘reset.’ However, for important things, she writes messages for herself down on her body with a special pen. One of her common clients is Kakushidate Yakusuke, a man who is often wrongly suspected of committing crimes. There is also a live-action drama adaptation of this story.... more>>

The original novel’s story is about a detective named Kyōko Okitegami who is also known as the forgetful detective. She forgets everything in a day, but solves cases the same day. (Her name has the Japanese word for “today” in it.) An unlucky young man named Yakusuke Kakushidate somehow ends up as the suspect in every case, and he always asks for the detective. <<less

Returning to his houseboat, Chu Liuxiang discovered that Su Rongrong, Li Hongxiu, Song Tian’er had been kidnapped by Hei Zhenzhu (see Book 1). Chu Liuxiang immediately set forth on a long journey to the Great Desert [i.e. Gobi] with his friends, Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan. In the desert, they encountered the most beautiful, the most vicious, the most ruthless, but with the highest martial art skill – foe, the Stone Avalokiteśvara (Shi Guanyin), while were also being s**ked into the political struggle within the tiny kingdom of Qiuci.... more>>

This is part two of the trilogy Fragrance in The Sea of Blood, The Great Desert and The Trush, so the chapter started from chapter 28 as the continuation from Fragrance in The Sea of Blood which ended at chapter 27. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

This is the first of the five novels that are collectively known as The New Legend of Chu Liuxiang [楚留香新傳].... more>>

Rumor has it that a strange island called the Bat Island contains numerous treasures and luxuries. The island was actually a black-market auction place featuring exclusive items, such as martial art manual that was not supposed to be passed on to outsiders, as well as secrets, of Jianghu. From time to time, the island’s master, who was known as the ‘Bat Prince’, would send exclusive invitations to select guests to visit the island to participate in this auction. All business deals were conducted inside a pitch-black cave to maintain secrecy.

Through a series of serendipitous events, Chu Liuxiang and his friends Hu Tiehua and Zhang San make their way to Bat Island with other companions. Along the way, some of their companions were mysteriously mu*dered. On the island, they eventually uncovered a sinister plot masterminded by the ‘Bat Prince’. <<less

In Jianghu, there is a mysterious clan of unknown origin who practise a strange religion. In every generation, a girl will be chosen from within... more>> the clan to serve as their Sacred Maiden, who must then take a vow of celibacy. The mother of the girl who has been selected to be the Sacred Maiden does not want her daughter to spend the rest of her life in solitude. She notices Chu Liuxiang and thinks he might be an ideal spouse for her daughter, so she sets up an elaborate plan to lure him into taking a series of challenges to assess his suitability. <<less

A series of short stories on the theme of familiar mental issues. Composed of seven chapters. A cunning and strange counselor reveals the true nature of his clients’ mental problems through counseling. However, this may not necessarily yield satisfactory outcomes for the counselor…?... more>>

The chapters are not connected to each other, so you can start reading from any point. The protagonist is basically an armchair detective, but occasionally he goes outside. A lot of mental health miscellaneous.

Chapter 1 to 14 => A story of the protagonist’s encounter with the heroine.

Chapter 15 to 22 => A story of an elderly person troubled by noise in the neighborhood.

Chapter 23 to 31 => A story of a mother who is distressed by her son’s domestic violence.

Chapter 32 to 44 => A story of a woman who desires to learn the truth of her fiancé’s death.

Chapter 45 to 54 => A story of a high school girl who wishes to have cosmetic surgery.

Chapter 55 to 65 => A story of a man who is troubled by the vision of a black cat. <<less

By chance, the poor examinee Zhang Ping encountered Assistant Minister of Rites, Lan Jue – the two became attached since then.... more>>

Zhang Ping, who likes to solve cases, solved numerous mu*ders, with the erudite Lan Jue providing him with much help.

The prelude revolves around Zhang Ping’s flamboyant life from a poor scholar to a Prime Minister. Knowledgeable on the ways of officials, Lan Jue, who’d always only cared about saving his own skin, found his manner and life gradually changing soundlessly… <<less

【Handsome straight cop/Mixed-race metros*xual forensic pathologist】... more>>

They are working together to solve a series of strange cases!

Every serious case tells a story of life and death, laughter and tears,

all awaiting your investigation… <<less

This is the third and the last part of the story arc collectively known as The Legend of Chu Liuxiang [楚留香傳奇]. Although not absolutely necessary, reading the first two books is recommended, since there are references to these books.... more>>

Returning from the Great Desert (see Book 2), Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua have a series of encounters with Li Yuhan and his wife, Liu Wumei, a former apprentice of the Stone Avalokiteśvara (Shi Guanyin). Eventually, these encounters led Chu Liuxiang to the final showdown against the Shuimu Yinji, the mistress of the Holy Water Palace, and solved the mystery of the ‘Trush’.

The chapter started from chapter 63 as the continuation from The Great Desert which ended at chapter 62. <<less

Mamoru Asano, a homicide detective, investigates a case with Yuto Honma, a backup from the Community Safety Division. The two become attracted to each other... more>> as they spend time together. However, Asano still has the ring he was supposed to give his girlfriend five years after their breakup. Honma finds out about it. The two meet, and their love ends up with twists and turns... <<less

Yorozuya is a company specialized in tasks related to the supernatural.... more>>

Tamaoku Mutsu, Yuno Sousuke and Yashiro Hiroto who work for Yorozuya, took on a series of tasks from Toushirou and Nishihara, but Mutsu refused to leave the office.

It’s not really a large job, but everyone was surprised when Mutsu revealed she’s troubled with the loss of her powers. Just as everyone come to terms with it and their daily lives returned to normal, a tochigami, or a guardian kami of a specific area, appears at the company.

Maybe it’s because they spent a lot of time together due to work, but Mutsu and Nishihara’s relationship also had a subtle change as uncertain feelings flourished between them.

And with an oni often appearing at their work, Nishihara to protect Mutsu, unexpectedly…

The things you obtain in exchange for what you’ve lost… <<less

In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous "smart thread" technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an... more>> integral part of daily life. But these convenient devices come with an invasive drawback—they record every sight, sound, and even emotion their users experience. For electronic investigator Echika Hieda, diving into peoples' memories via the Your Forma and hunting for evidence to solve the toughest crimes is all part of a day's work. The problem is, she's so good at what she does that her assistants literally fry their brains trying to keep up with her. After putting one too many aides in the hospital, the top brass finally furnish Echika with a partner on her level, a brilliant yet cheeky android named Harold Lucraft. Does this unlikely duo have what it takes to resolve their mutual suspicions and avert a deadly technological infection from sweeping across the globe before it's too late? <<less