ADVANCED REVIEW: BOOK REVIEW: PAINTED DOLL AN ONLY IN TOKYO MYSTERY BY JONELLE PATRICK

Advanced Review: Painted Doll An Only in Tokyo Mystery
Author: Jonelle Patrick

Publisher: Bancroft and Greene

Pages: 348

ISBN 10:0997570938

Rating: *****
Release Date: 5/12/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Synopsis:
When Tokyo Detective Kenji Nakamura's phone rings with the news that his mother's death ten years ago wasn't an accident, his world begins to unravel. New evidence links her to a young woman, whose body was found dolled up like a movie star and tossed in the gutter like an abandoned plaything. With the help of part-time English translator Yumi Hata, Kenji begins to piece together what really happened the night his mother died. But the closer he gets to discovering who killed the Painted Doll, the more he fears that the truth will destroy all that's left of his fractured family.

BOOK REVIEW: IDOLMAKER (AN ONLY IN TOKYO MYSTERY) BY JONELLE PATRICK

 
Idolmaker (An Only in Tokyo Mystery)
Author: Jonelle Patrick

Publisher: Bancroft and Greene

Pages: 388

ISBN 10:099757092X

Rating: ****

Synopsis:
A Japanese pop star is swept away in the tsunami following a devastating earthquake, and her fans erupt in a frenzy of mourning. In the wake of the disaster, Detective Kenji Nakamura is sent to investigate a death at a local shrine, but amid the rubble he finds evidence that suggests the impossible: How could the head priest have been murdered by the dead idol? It doesn’t help that the star’s body is still missing, and Kenji’s childhood friend Yumi Hata refuses to believe that her favourite artist is dead. She launches her own investigation to convince Kenji he’s on the wrong track. But by the time their race for the truth lands them backstage at a sold-out memorial concert for the dead guitarist, the one thing they’ve both learned is just how quickly the hunters can become the hunted.

JAPANESE THRILLER REVIEW: NIGHTSHADE: AN ONLY IN TOKYO MYSTERY FROM JONELLE PATRICK

Nightshade: An Only in Tokyo Mystery
Author: Jonelle Patrick
Publisher: Bancroft and Greene
Pages: 344
ISBN: 978-0-9975709-0-8
Rating: * * * * *

Synopsis:
First in an all-new series of mysteries that could happen only in Tokyo...

Yumi Hata went to school in the U.S., but now—back in Tokyo, living with her parents and working as an English translator—she no longer fits in with the fiercely traditional Japanese. If not for her friend Rika, Yumi would feel completely isolated, so when Rika is found dead—suspected of jisatsu, taking part in a suicide pact—Yumi is devastated.