The Books Oracle

The Little Sparrow Murders

by Bryan Karetnyk / Seishi Yokomizo · Detective Kosuke Kindaichi series

A series of deaths connected by a children's song draws Kindaichi into a case where nursery rhymes dictate the murders and the killer seems to be taunting him directly. As the pattern becomes clear, the detective realizes he is not solving the crime so much as racing to its foreordained end.

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi in reading order

• 1. The Honjin Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai
• 2. The Village of Eight Graves — Seishi Yokomizo / Bryan Karetnyk
• 3. Death on Gokumon Island — Louise Heal Kawai / Seishi Yokomizo
• 4. The Devil's Flute Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Jim Rion
• 5. The Little Sparrow Murders — Bryan Karetnyk / Seishi Yokomizo

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