by Hideo Yokoyama · riverrun · tapa dura · ISBN 9781848665255
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«Six Four» is the suspense novel by Hideo Yokoyama, published by riverrun in hardback (640 pages, in English).
The novel begins with the kidnapping of a girl in Tokyo in 1989, a case the police never solved and which became known as «Six Four». Years later, an officer in the police press department detects an anomaly in the old file and, on investigating, unearths cover-ups that compromise his superiors.
It is the fourth instalment in Hideo Yokoyama's Prefecture D series and is translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies. The original title of the work is «Rokuyon 64».
For readers of crime and detective fiction, especially fans of Japanese mystery and translated fiction.
Hideo Yokoyama is a Japanese novelist who specializes in mystery novels. He is also known for his career as a journalist for the Jomo Shimbun, the regional paper in Gunma. He repeated his Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! No. 1 ranking in 2013 with Six Four (64). The English edition of Six Four, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, was shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger.
