In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Café makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the café's black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the café's garden?
As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the café's enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?
To solve the mystery, Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal... As he races to get to the truth, he discovers that nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems.
- ISBN10 1805335510
- ISBN13 9781805335511
- Publish Date 11 September 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Steerforth Press
- Imprint Pushkin Vertigo
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English