Here is a book list I put together for a display. I don't much care for Scandinavian crime, but it has been credited with encouraging the growth of international crime fiction in English. These books have Asian characters or Asian settings or both. I include only books that our library owns, but the list might be of use to librarians, or as a reading checklist. Where only the series name is given, see Fantastic Fiction for titles. The image, which I borrowed from Grand Theft Auto, was used on my display poster, with the brushstroke font Bonzai.
Brackman, Lisa
Rock Paper Tiger
Hour of the Rat
Browne, Marshall
Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn
Burdett, John
Bangkok series
Chandra, Vikram
Sacred Games
Chang, Henry
Detective Jack Yu series
Cotterill, Colin
Dr. Siri series
Jimm Juree series
Flint, Shamini
Inspector Singh series
Higashino, Keigo
The Devotion of Suspect X
Salvation of a Saint
Hirahara, Naomi
Mas Arai series
Murder in Bamboo Lane
Isaka, Kotaro
Remote Control
Keating, H.R.F.
Inspector Ghote series
Kirino, Natsuo
Real World
Out
Lancet, Barry
Japantown
Tokyo Kill
Lee, Don
Country of Origin
Lewis, Simon
Bad Traffic
Liang, Diane Wei
Mei Wang mysteries
Limon, Martin
Sueño and Bascomb Investigations
Marshall, William
Yellowthread Street
Miyabe, Miyuki
Shadow Family
All She Was Worth
Pattison, Eliot
Inspector Shan series
Peace, David
Tokyo Year Zero
Occupied City
Qiu, Xiaolong
Inspector Chen series
Robinson, Thatcher
White Ginger
Black Karma
Rozan, S.J.
Lydia Chin series
Shimada, Soji
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Swarup, Vikas
Six Suspects
Vittachi, Nury
The Feng Shui Detective
