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Yukito Ayatsuji (born 1960) is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror novels and one of the founding members of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan, dedicated to the writing of fair-play mysteries inspired by the Golden Age Greats. He started writing as a member of the Kyoto University Mystery Club, which has nurtured many of Japans greatest crime writers. The Decagon House Murders and The Mill House Murders are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
'Praise for Yukito Ayatsujis mysteries:' - . 'From the first page you know youre in the hands of a master. The atmosphere, the setting, the characters... it is flawless.' - Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants 'If you enjoyed Yukito Ayatsujis ingenious The Decagon House Murders - and how could you not? - you will love this quasi-Christie locked-room mystery' - The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club 'A psychological-mystical thriller built on tropes from cozier crime fiction. Agatha Christie-type stopwatch sequences and John Dickson Carr-style locked-room conundrums coexist with Poe-like Gothic sequences full of severed limbs and charred flesh... No one can accuse Mr. Ayatsuji of not sustaining the eerie mood of his strange story until its very last sentence' - Wall Street Journal 'The denouement was fiendishly clever... An engaging, entertaining mystery with a puzzle fit for the most ardent of armchair detectives' - NB Magazine
