Recs if you like The Mantis (Assassins, #3)...

my favourite genre, these books are so much fun and more and more are being added all the time If anyone has any questions about any book I will try to help. I have read most of them and have reference books on the history of Japanese crime fiction.

Winners and nominees of the Japan Booksellers’ Award (Honya Taisho) translated into English

*Not listed in year or sequence

So turns out there is only Katanas, in the Japanese ones. Tales of Assassins fiction and non-fiction. A subgenre of crime that is fun unless you are the target.