The Little Sparrow Murders

A remote mountain village is struck by a series of gruesome murders, eerily mirroring the lines of a local nursery rhyme... "With a pinch of John Dickson Carr and a dash of Agatha Christie, solver of impossible crimes" Kosuke Kindaichi returns for another murder mystery (The New York Times) Another ingenious classic locked room murder mystery, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Anthony Horowitz, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers.The scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns to solve another satisfying stand-alone murder mystery.An old friend of Kindaichi's invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi in the village than a new series of murders strikes  - several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that eerily echo the lyrics