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Riku Onda, born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television.
Praise for The Aosawa Murders NYT: Chosen as one of Most Notable Books of 2020. Strange, engrossing, stubbornly non-linear... Guardian: One of the Best Mystery Novels of 2020. Tantalising as a scene glimpsed through a half-open door, this is an utterly immersive puzzler in which nothing is entirely cut and dried. WSJ: Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery--is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution. The Times: Rich and strange, utterly absorbing. Globe and Mail: Can this book open up the world of Japanese crime in the way that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo opened up Scandi Noir? I hope so. KIRKUS starred review: This dark and dazzling novel defies easy categorization but consistently tantalizes and surprises.
