Les meilleures histoires sont celles que l'on partage. Kaede, jeune institutrice timide de Tokyo, tombe un jour sur d'étranges coupures de journaux glissées dans un livre d'occasion. Pour résoudre cette énigme, elle pense aussitôt à son grand-père, qui possède un incroyable talent de déduction et une immense culture des grands classiques de la littérature policière. Ensemble, ils vont ainsi faire travailler leur imagination. Mais quand la fiction s'immisce dans le réel et menace Kaede, leur capacité à tisser des histoires va devenir leur plus grande force. Une ode aux vertus apaisantes de la littérature !

There used to be a cafe called Mon Cheri at Nishi Waseda where members of the Waseda Mystery Club spent day after day frothing in excitement over the latest mystery novels and now he and Kaede solve mysteries together . . .

As a lover of classic crime stories, it''s perhaps no surprise that 27-year-old schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your average person. Solving them is another matter though, and the person she always heads to for guidance is her beloved grandfather who, despite having dementia retains a keen sharpness of mind. From impossible locked room murders to confounding missing person cases, the granddaughter and grandfather team ''weave stories'' in master-and-apprentice fashion to get to the bottom of a variety of cases. All the while, a shadow slowly closes in on Kaede, posing a more insidious threat . . .

Steeped in references to classic crime from Christie to Chesterton to Poe, My Grandfather, the Master Detective playfully nods to forebears of the genre, while also carrying the light-hearted, escapist hallmarks of cosy crime books which have recently captured readers'' imaginations. Meanwhile, its charming characters and affectionate focus on relationships bring to mind heart-warming Japanese titles such as Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Lire la suite Fermer