The fine art of uncanny prediction / Robert Goddard.
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TextSeries: Goddard, Robert. Umiko Wada ; bk. 2.Publisher: Leicester [England] : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2023Edition: Large print editionDescription: 480 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444851588Subject(s): Private investigators -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Conspiracy -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Tokyo (Japan) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books. Summary: Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss Kazuto Kodaka in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer, and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War. As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried...
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Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss Kazuto Kodaka in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer, and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War. As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried...
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