Remember Tokyo
A Foreign Affairs Mystery
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In Tokyo, Charlie Hillier discovers you can’t always bank on the truth.
Fresh off a harrowing experience in Russia, Charlie is keen to lay low, and his latest posting to Tokyo offers him the chance to immerse himself in a truly foreign culture.
Charlie is soon drawn into his first consular case when a successful young investment banker winds up in a coma following a
car accident. After a man claiming to be a friend of the banker’s turns up dead, Charlie and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police inspector assigned to investigate the murder, Chikako Kobayashi, discover that trusting the banker — who emerges from his coma with amnesia — may be a dangerous decision.
As Charlie tries to sift truth from deceit, he’s unsure if he’s dealing with a man whose accident has brought about a profound change for the better or a devious criminal lurking behind a convenient facade.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Ottawa author Nick Wilkshire brings back the character of Canadian consular officer-turned-amateur detective Charlie Hillier—and this time he’s posted in Japan. After the adventures of Escape to Havana and The Moscow Code, Charlie’s ready to relax, but it’s not long before a murder case involving a conveniently amnesiac investment banker pulls him into an investigation of Tokyo’s criminal underworld. We immediately succumbed to the story’s fast-paced action, and to Charlie’s rumpled charm and contagious curiosity. Plus, we absolutely love the way Wilkshire effortlessly provides a crash course in another country’s culture while delivering impressive thrills.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wilkshire's appealing third Foreign Affairs mystery (after 2017's The Moscow Code) takes Canadian consular officer Charles Hillier to Tokyo, where his first assignment is to look into the case of a Canadian citizen, banker Robert Lepage, who's in a coma in the hospital after an auto accident. Charlie welcomes the opportunity to work with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police on the investigation, which becomes complicated after Mike Seger, a friend of Lepage's who wanted the banker released into his care, is found dead with drugs and alcohol in his blood in the city's notorious Roppongi area. Meanwhile, Lepage receives daily visits from the striking and mysterious Aiko Kimura, purported to be his girlfriend, but Charlie doubts that they are really together. Charlie and the efficient and beautiful Insp. Chikako Kobayashi, to whom he's attracted, must determine whether Seger has been murdered and whether Lepage is involved in criminal activities with the yakuza. Wilkshire takes full advantage of the Tokyo setting to contrast Charlie's Western attitudes with Eastern customs in this winning mix of diplomacy and sleuthing.
