![]() ![]() Many years prior to the beginning of the main story, a group of samurai traveled to the village, where they hoped to hide out and perhaps start new lives. It begins with a prologue that gives us the history of how the Village of Eight Graves got its name sets the stage for the murder mystery at the heart of the story. The Village of Eight Graves is a more complex mystery than the two previous Yokomizo novels I've read in English. ![]() ![]() The Village of Eight Graves is the third (following The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse), although I'm optimistic that we'll be seeing more in the years to come since Pushkin Vertigo has been working on publishing translated version, and there's currently a fourth, Gokumon Island, slated for publication in 2022. So far only a few of these novels have been translated into English. Seishi Yokomizo was a famous Japanese novelist known for creating the character of crime-solver Kosuke Kindaichi, who was featured in 77 mystery novels. ![]()
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