Miyuki Miyabe

Kosaka, a journalist, joins forces with two young men who claim to have psychic powers, as they search for a young boy who has gone missing after a typhoon has struck Tokyo, each harboring suspicions about each other and the possibility that the boy has been murdered.

Slowly, the answers are uncovered by sixteen-year-old Mamoru, the nephew of the taxi driver currently being held by the police on charges of manslaughter for the death of the third victim. Determined to help his uncle, the enterprising young protagonist discovers that the girl killed by his uncle's taxi had …

Crossfire is a novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The novel, published in Japan in 1998, and was published in English by Kodansha America in 2006. The English version was translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki.

This is a murder mystery focusing on the dark world of internet chat roomsopulated by people attracted by the chance to be whoever they want to be.olice investigating the murder of a middleaged office worker discover emailsn the victim's computer that indicate he had been a regular participant inn internet chat room. …

Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be …