The Silence Beneath Shinjuku

She checked into Room 1708 three days early. By morning, she was gone.

At 2:17 a.m., art restorer Yuna Saeki wakes in a Shinjuku hotel to knocking inside the wall. On the bed lies a photograph of five people outside a Kyoto house, with one face scratched out. Then the phone rings. A woman whispers: "I'm the woman in Room 1708."

By dawn, Yuna has vanished. The security footage shows her entering the room three days before her reservation began.

Disgraced journalist Ren Takahashi receives the same photograph under his door. Detective Ishikawa asks him to explain why his name is in Yuna's room. His only link to the case is Aiko Kuroda, the woman he loved and lost, who may know what the photograph is hiding. The trail leads from neon Tokyo to an abandoned house in Kyoto, where a hidden third door opens onto a past someone has worked very hard to bury.

The deeper Ren digs, the more he suspects that the missing piece of the story is his own memory.

The Silence Beneath Shinjuku is a fast, atmospheric thriller about buried evidence, family secrets, and a conspiracy that survives by being forgotten.

Perfect for readers of Keigo Higashino, Natsuo Kirino, and Tana French.