The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, Crime General
Paperback Published on: 04/04/2024
£9.99
Bookseller Reviews
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So wholesome, will make you crave ramen!
Thank you to Pan Macmillan for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review.
The Kamogawa Food Detectives follows a father and daughter duo - Nag... READ MORE
This will warm your heart, and make you hungry!
This is an absolutely delightful read, set in a quiet restaurant in Kyoto. The owner, Nagare, and his daughter Koishi recreate dishes for their customers,... READ MORE
This book will warm your heart, and make you hungry!
This is an absolutely delightful read, set in a quiet restaurant in Kyoto. The owner, Nagare, and his daughter Koishi recreate dishes for their customers,... READ MORE
Heartwarming easy reading
This book was a very easy, no stress, cozy read for the autumn and winter months. It has a very simple plot which did leave me wanting in places - I wanted... READ MORE
A Comforting Read
Have you ever had a dish that you just can’t get out of your head but have no clue how to recreate it? The Kamogawa food detectives are on the case!
This ... READ MORE
A delicious little book.
An incredibly comforting and cozy read filled with warm and delicious food. I couldn't get enough.
Comfort food
'I reckon we always meet the people we're supposed to meet. Which is why you ended up walking through that door.'
An enigmatic newspaper advert, with no... READ MORE
perfect cozy read when everything is overwhelming and you just need a dive into food and nostalgia with the characters!!
This was our book club book for June! I have to say I wasn’t too sure what to expect I haven’t read any translation books but I have seen them everywhere! ... READ MORE
A calming, melancholy tale of people trying to connect with their past and their loved ones through food.
This is was a really calming, melancholy tale of people trying to connect with their past and their loved ones through food. I found the characters to be e... READ MORE
Wholesome
This book is a source of great comfort. If you are looking for a calm, peaceful read to ass the time, while also looking at lovely food, this is a good boo... READ MORE
Warning: this book will make you hungry!
This is a true love letter to Japanese cuisine and the power that food has over our memories. It was such a heartwarming and tender story. I also found it ... READ MORE
A big warm hug!
An absolutely beautiful story of six dishes and how they shaped the people who eat them. Tales of family, love, loss, connection, and childhood; the power ... READ MORE
Synopsis
The first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is perfect for fans of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner treats its customers to wonderfully extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason to stop by . . .
The father-daughter duo have started advertising their services as 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are capable of recreating a dish from their customers' pasts – dishes that may well hold the keys to unlocking forgotten memories and future happiness.
From the widower looking for a specific noodle dish that his wife used to cook, to a first love's beef stew, the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past – and a way to a more contented future.
A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, and translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN: 9781035009596
- Number of pages: 208
- Weight: 158g
- Dimensions: 197 x 132 x 15 mm
Customer Reviews
View allA delicious cosy mystery featuring a father-daughter team of food detectives
‘Kamogawa Diner – Kamogawa Detective Agency – We Find Your Food. - advert, ‘Gourmet Monthly’”
My thanks to Pan Macmillan Mantle for an eARC via NetG... READ MORE
Brilliant
The Kamogowa Food Detectives are a Father/Daughter combo who run a little restaurant in Kyoto, Japan. The duo recieve guests who are trying to recreate dis... READ MORE
The right combination of ingredients
“Kamogawa Diner - Kamogawa Detective Agency - We Find Your Food”
The Kamogawa Detective Agency is run by Nagare Kamogawa and his daughter, Koishi. Their... READ MORE
A Japanese detective story - with food!
The premise of this book is lovely - a father and daughter run a restaurant in Japan where customers can come and ask them it help recreate a particularly ... READ MORE
Recommended
A lovely book full of delicious sounding foods! I really liked the father and daughter main characters. Recommended.
Repetitive and Slight
As one short story, this probably works, and would be quite charming - although as a detective story it misses out all the actual detecting!
Sadly, this... READ MORE
A beautiful pallate cleanser
The Kamogawa Food Detectives centres on The Kamogawa Diner, a restaurant that specialises in creating dishes from their customers' pasts - dishes that may ... READ MORE
Heartwarming
A lovely cozy read which gives you the warm fuzzies with every chapter.
Detective story involving Japanese Cuisine
The Kamogawa Diner is based in Kyoto and is run by Father, Daughter Nagare and Koishi.
Koishi a former detective helps different customer's, friends find ... READ MORE
The definition of cosy
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a Japanese contemporary fiction novel, which is especially perfect for fans of the series Before the Coffee Gets Cold. This... READ MORE
A wonderful read about memories and so much more
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a wonderful feel good book that is as much about people and memories as it is about food. Translated by Jesse Kirkwood it k... READ MORE
Charming
The Kamogawa food detectives is so wholesome! This lovely book is more like six loosely connected short stories. A single line advertisement in a gourmet m... READ MORE
a feast for both the mind and the soul
"The Kamogawa Food Detectives" by Hisashi Kashiwai is a feast for both the mind and the soul. Seamlessly blending low suspense, drama, and culinary delight... READ MORE
A mysterious diner and stories of memories of food
In the Japanese city of Kyoto, it’s a certain kind of client that looks for the Kamagawa Diner. A nondescript building, perhaps a little shabby with no obv... READ MORE
not what I expected
I think my expectations were high when I started this book because it didn't meet any. I don't know if it is the translation or the style of the story but ... READ MORE
A book written with feeling…
I like Japanese authors. I don’t know what it is, but they have something we don’t have in the West…whatever that something is, is fully expressed in this ... READ MORE
Comfort food for thought
Beautifully written and translated story of a father and daughter who run a restaurant and detective agency in Kyoto, Japan. The detective agency tracks do... READ MORE
A Detective team all about Food and emotions
A warm and friendly story about how food and experiences go together and how a special chef and his daughter help find a particular food for their client t... READ MORE
Heartwarming novel set in KYOTO
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What a charming and heart-warming novel this is! All of us go through life, associating particular foods and... READ MORE
A bit of an oddity but quite entertaining.
This book is a series of challenges to recreate particular food dishes in a restaurant in Kyoto. Each investigation is based on the life story of the perso... READ MORE
A very comforting (& quick) read
"The Kamogawa Food Detectives" by Hisashi Kashiwai is a quick and very sweet book about food memories. I'm pretty sure everyone has a dish that they remem... READ MORE
A tasty dish but not quite a meal!
The central conceit of this book is that there is a tiny diner in the Japanese city of Kyoto run by a father and daughter who create specialised dishes for... READ MORE
Foodies want investigations in Japan
translated, Japan, foodie, contemporary, ex-cop, detective, father-and-daughter, investigations, friendship, friends, family, nostalgia, culinary, cultural... READ MORE
Can you imagine being able to eat a perfectly recreated version of a beloved dish from your past? That is exactly what the Kamogawa detective agency specialises in.
In Kyoto, there is a restaurant which doesn’t look like a restaurant. It always smells delicious and cheerful banter can be overheard. The Kamogawa diner a... READ MORE
Formulaic like Columbo, intriguing concept and oozing humanity
The concept and formula could go on forever. Here we have six cycles/chapters, each a new customer seeking to recreate and heal something of their past. In... READ MORE
Gentle & Heart Warming
Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy.
This is a lovely gentle read that will truly warm your heart and be warned... make your tummy rumbl... READ MORE
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