From Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino, who has sold over a million copies in Japan, The Final Curtain is the fourth and final instalment in the Detective Kaga series

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother who, years before, had run away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact.

Now in Tokyo, two strangulations occur in the same area of the city and a detective suspects they may be linked. As the police search for clues that might shed some light, Detective Matsumiya reaches out to Kaga for advice. As the case unfolds, an unexpected connective emerges between the murder (or murders) now and the long-ago case of Detective Kaga's missing mother.

'An intricate, many-layered puzzle' Kirkus

'Brilliantly twisty... This poignant fair-play whodunit is sure to thrill fans of golden age detective fiction' Publishers Weekly