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Haruo Yuki’s The Ark is a pop-culture-savvy, updated take on the locked-room murder mystery

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The Ark by Haruo Yuki is a murder mystery with its fair share of gruesome deaths.

The Ark by Haruo Yuki is a murder mystery with its fair share of gruesome deaths.

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By Haruo Yuki, translated by Jim Rion
Fiction/Pushkin Vertigo/285 pages/Paperback/$34.95

Whether you take to this best-selling Japanese murder mystery depends on the sub-niche of the genre you prefer.

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