Sahei Inugami has three daughters, all from different mistresses.

There are multiple characters in the story, which means multiple suspects for us. It had the perfect setting a rich businessman dies and his last will leaves everyone in his messed up cold-blooded family in a chaotic ‘literally bloody’ mess. The Inugami Curse is what I call the perfect murder mystery novel. I have rated The Honjin Murders at 3/5 stars! ~~THE INUGAMI CURSE~~ While I am open to new styles of writing, this particular style specifically for a crime novel, did not work for me at all. The narration was unlike I have ever read. I did not enjoy looking back at the story. What is a koto? What is a koto bridge? I googled it, but still it was difficult to imagine how the entire murder actually happened.Īpart from this, the other major disadvantage for me was the way the book is written. But, because of it, I was clueless most of the time. I know it is originally written Japanese, so it has bound to have Japanese content. Either the layout of the house or the way the murder actually took place. My main problem with this book was that I could not imagine what was written. I think only 3 are translated to English, so when I did not enjoy the first one, I was disappointed. I was fully determined to love all the Seishi Yokomizo books. I picked The Honjin Murders the first of the lot, but I had a difficult time reading it. So, ironically I am thankful to the curses in these books because of which my slump curse is broken! Check out my thoughts on all three books! ~~THE HONJIN MURDERS~~

And after the second, there was only one left, so I had to read that too. But, after I read the first one, I had to read the second. Hi Readers! The reading slump is finally broken with three murder mystery books with a lot of gory, bloody, horrifying, creepy, lunatic characters from Seishi Yokomizo’s three books translated from the Japanese! I did not intend on reading such highly detailed books about multiple murders, especially not 3 books in 3 days.

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo