What lies behind the blood-red curtain of a murder show broadcast from the dark web?

In Strawberry Night, readers meet Reiko Himekawa, a twenty-seven-year-old homicide detective who has risen through the ranks of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police with unprecedented speed. Driven by a traumatic past that left her with an uncanny intuition for the criminal mind, she is undaunted by the danger of her profession, even as she battles skepticism from her male counterparts.

The discovery of a body wrapped in plastic leads Reiko to a series of gruesomely similar murders connected to "Strawberry Night"—an online spectacle where participants are recruited to witness live butchery. As she closes in on the show's sponsors, the investigation turns personal and deadly, costing the life of a colleague and putting Reiko herself in the hands of the killers.

This exploding bestseller, which has sold over 3 million copies in Japan and spawned multiple TV and film adaptations, is the first in the Reiko Himekawa series. It is a gritty, fast-paced thriller about a detective who must confront the darkness of the world without being consumed by her own.