Tokyo's Nihonbashi Bridge is home to a statue of a kirin, a mythical animal. One night, a guy stumbles onto the bridge and falls in front of the bird. The man was stabbed in the chest when the patrolman on duty went to wake him up because he thought the man was inebriated. He's gone. While attempting to elude the authorities, a young man called Yashima gets hurt in a nearby vehicle accident. The victim's wallet was discovered on him. But was he really the perpetrator of the crime? What ties does he have to the victim? And why did the victim, who was in terminal condition, crawl himself from the crime site to the Nihonbashi Bridge? Kyoichiro Kaga, Detective, Tokyo Police must piece together the answers to all of these questions in order to find the killer, but each answer he finds seems to throw up more questions ... Taking us deep into the heart of Tokyo, and reintroducing the charming and ingenious Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending and hugely satisfying murder mystery from the modern master of classic crime.