Inspector Iwata, 1: Blue Light Yokohama: A Crime Novel (Hardcover)

from ozzer

BLUE LIGHT YOKOHAMA¬ is Nicolás Obregón's debut. It is a dark crime novel blessed with an intricate plot and a few complex characters. However, it fails to evoke feelings of a genuine Japan. Instead we get a pretty bland Tokyo and many characters that tend to behave more like Westerners than actu...

from sensitivemuse

So if you're into police procedurals where you want high speed chases, lots of action and a real fast plot you will not find it in this one. You read this more for the characters and how they're involved or what they have in common with each other whether through association of one other person, ...

from neal_

Started reading this via NetGalley and knew I had to get a proper copy before the end of the second chapter. Mr Obregón obviously knows the setting of the novel well and Iwata, the newest member of Tokyo's murder squad, proves to have a complex character as we follow him through his investigation...

from Vicki_Weisfeld

What an entertaining debut! Told almost exclusively from the perspective of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kosuke Iwata, it's a multilayered police procedural involving murder, official corruption, and dangerous secrets. A brief prologue set in 1996 describes the death of a woman ...

from neal_

Started reading this via NetGalley and knew I had to get a proper copy before the end of the second chapter. Mr Obregón obviously knows the setting of the novel well and Iwata, the newest member of Tokyo's murder squad, proves to have a complex character as we follow him through his investigation...