The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

''The world''s greatest storyteller'' Guardian
''One of the finest crime writers of any generation'' Daily Mail
''Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting'' Mick Herron
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Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances.

Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of