The Moving Blade in Bloomington, MN

In Tokyo, the past is present. And deadly.
Named One of
Kirkus Reviews
Best Indie Mysteries and Thrillers
(2018)
Grand Prize Winner
Chanticleer International Book Awards Global Thrillers (2018)
Winner
Independent Press Award for Crime Fiction (2019)
When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations.
When his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, but finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics.
With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo's back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim.
"Nail-biting!"-US Review of Books
The Moving Blade
is the second book in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.