Hunter and Higashi Mysteries

Winner of the 2024 Discovery Editors' Choice Award When a supposedly cursed traditional Japanese instrument arrives at the British School of Kyoto, strange things start to happen. A phantom geisha haunts the halls, a star student vanishes, and cryptic symbols appear across the campus. For Jessica Hunter, a seasoned globetrotter trying to adapt to life at BSK, the eerie events are more than just schoolyard rumors. Teaming up with Kenta Higashi, a local boy with his own connection to the missing student, Jessica suspects a sinister force is at play. As they investigate, they uncover a web of secrets, lies, and a vengeance plot tied to the instrument's shadowy past. Can Jessica and Kenta unravel the truth behind the curse before it claims another victim? Or will they become the next targets of its wrath?

How do you stop a killer that's everywhere? This is the dilemma facing young detectives Jessica Hunter and Kenta Higashi when they discover a sinister organization known as The Syndicate is behind a brutal murder in Osaka. Fresh from saving the British School of Kyoto from a vicious attack, the two school friends are lauded as heroes, but they alone know the real perpetrators are still at large. When a talented young hacker is found dead in Osaka, Jessica is the first to link it to The Syndicate, whose powerful network runs far wider and deeper than even she could have imagined. Why are they building a secret army? And what is The Syndicate's connection to a major organization in Osaka? Outgunned on every level and surrounded on all sides by an invisible foe that will stop at nothing, Hunter and Higashi must live on their wits if they want to survive.