This set of night-time stories are really ten in one as the author says. I wanted more of those tales of eccentric and interesting lives of taxi driver Matsui, private detective Shuro and call centre worker Kanako to name a few. They are intimate, fun and mysterious and I hugely enjoyed them.
‘Is there a mystery you need solving?’
‘A mystery ... I suppose you could call it that. I'm looking for my brother.’
Huh? Matsui tilted his head slightly. Back when she had offered Mitsuki and him glasses of her loquat wine, she had explained that it was her brother who had first started making it. He had even caught her looking at his photo on the cupboard, of the young man who looked just like her. He had assumed from the conversation that he must have died young.
‘I don't know where he is.’
‘I see,’ he nodded.
‘Me too,’ he added cautiously after a moment of thought.
‘You too?’
‘Yes. I've been searching for someone myself.
‘Then why don't we look together? This has to be fate. A taxi driver out looking for someone picks up a great detective as a passenger, and then when you can't find him again, you bump into me, also trying to find someone. It must be a message from God, telling us both to ask the detective for help.’
