Tokyo Juku (Detective Hiroshi Series Book 7)

Eighteen-year-old Mana is desperate to escape failure in Japan's unforgiving exam culture. After a year of defeat she throws herself into sleepless nights at a Tokyo cram school. Then one late study break changes everything. Her teacher, the man who gave her hope, lies murdered in a classroom, and Mana stops chasing test scores and starts fighting for her life.

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu, a forensic accountant assigned to homicide, gets the case. The classroom killing opens into financial deception and power struggles inside Japan's billion-yen education machine. The media is ready to condemn Mana, bureaucrats want a scapegoat, and the new homicide chief wants a win. In Tokyo's exam world, the truth is the hardest test of all.

Seventh in the Detective Hiroshi series.