Nicolas Obregon

Living in LA and working as a private detective he spends his days spying on unfaithful spouses and his nights with an unavailable woman. Still he cannot forget the family he lost in Tokyo.But that all changes when a figure from his old life appears at his door demanding his help.Meredith Nichol, a transgender woman and his wife's sister, has been found strangled on the lonely train tracks behind Skid Row.Soon he discovers that the devil is at play in the City of Angels and Meredith's death wasn't the hate crime the police believe it to be. This is dangerous territory. But Iwata knows that risking his life and future is the only way to silence the demons of his past.Reluctantly throwing himself back in to the dangerous existence he only just escaped, Iwata discovers a seedy world of corruption, exploitation and murder - and a river of sin flowing through LA's underbelly, Mexico's dusty borderlands, and deep within his own past.

Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo's homicide department, is assigned a new partner and a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails and shunned by her colleagues, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai is a partner Iwata decides it would be unwise to cross. A case that's complicated - a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web and painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom ceiling before he left in broad daylight. A case that so haunted the original investigator that he threw himself off the city's famous Rainbow Bridge. Carrying his own secret torment, Iwata is no stranger to pain. He senses the trauma behind the killer's brutal actions. Yet his progress is thwarted in the unlikeliest of places. Fearing corruption among his fellow officers, tracking a killer he's sure is only just beginning and trying to put his own shattered life back together, Iwata knows time is running out before he's taken off the case or there are more killings ...Blue Light Yokohama is crime fiction at its very best - gripping, haunting, atmospheric and utterly captivating.Praise for Blue Light Yokahama 'Obregon is a bright, sophisticated new voice in crime fiction: his writing sings at you, reverberates, makes you consider more than just the urgent clamour of his novel's well-hewn murder plot. In Inspector Iwata, he has created a quiet, troubled hero whom readers will be sure to follow from one disturbing, atmospheric story to the next' Benjamin Wood, author of, The Ecliptic 'Refreshing' 'Engaging' Daily Mail

'In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly' A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window_____________Former homicide detective Kosuke Iwata is on the run from his past . . . Five years ago, he lost his family. Now he may have found his redemption.Living in LA and working as a private detective, he spends his days spying on unfaithful spouses and his nights with an unavailable woman. Still he cannot forget the family he lost in Tokyo. But that all changes when a figure from his old life appears at his door demanding his help. Meredith Nichol, a transgender woman and his wife's sister, has been found strangled on the lonely train tracks behind Skid Row. Soon he discovers that the devil is at play in the City of Angels and Meredith's death wasn't the hate crime the police believe it to be. Iwata knows that risking his life and future is the only way to silence the demons of his past.Reluctantly throwing himself back in to the dangerous existence he only just escaped, Iwata discovers a seedy world of corruption, exploitation and murder - and a river of sin flowing through LA's underbelly, Mexico's dusty borderlands and deep within his own past.

Un thriller absorbente de una nueva voz muy poderosa. Una historia perturbadora, un relato adictivo que, a través de la deslumbrante luz azul de Tokio, nos sumerge en un mundo tan rutilante como descarnado que mantendra al lector atrapado hasta el inesperado final.Recien destinado a la Unidad de Homicidios de la Policia Metropolitana de Tokio, el inspector Kosuke Iwata se hace cargo de un caso tan perturbador como complejo: una familia de cuatro miembros ha sido asesinada despiadadamente en su propia casa el dia de San Valentin. Y lo mas desconcertante es que el autor del brutal homicidio ha dejado unas cuantas pistas para los investigadores. Iwata, que cuenta con la ayuda de la joven policia Noriko Sakai, no deja de preguntarse por los extraños elementos ceremoniales de esa terrible tragedia, que apuntan a un sacrificio ritual, y que fue lo que llevo al afamado Hideo Akashi, el anterior investigador, a suicidarse saltando desde el emblematico Puente del Arcoiris al poco de empezar las pesquisas.En el escenario del crimen, Iwata y Sakai encuentran un escalofriante sol negro pintado en el techo de la habitacion. El inspector aun no ha podido desentrañar el significado de ese dibujo, pero el mensaje esta muy claro: Estoy aqui. No he terminado. Convencido de que la busqueda no ha hecho mas que empezar, que hay mucho mas detras de ese baño de sangre y que el asesino volvera a matar, Iwata hara todo lo posible para dilucidar un misterio que tiene aterrorizada a la poblacion y ha puesto en jaque a las autoridades del pais. Amenazado por sus superiores con ser apartado del caso y asediado de noche por escabrosas pesadillas y por la letra de una cancion, Iwata se sumergira en los bajos fondos de la ciudad y viajara de Tokio a Hong Kong en un asombroso periplo contra el reloj para averiguar quien va a ser la siguiente victima del asesino del Sol Negro.La critica ha dicho... Un debut espectacular.Sunday ExpressCon una trama compleja y ungran protagonista, La luz azul de Yokohama es un solido comienzo que promete una serie excelente.The GuardianUn relato poetico, pavoroso y fascinante. Ragnar JonassonCon su escenario y sus personajes japoneses,La luz azul de Yokohama ofrece un enfoque solido y sorprendentemente distinto sobre asesinos en serie. Simon BeckettAsombroso. Cautivador.Daily MailUn libro excelentemente escrito y lleno de giros que atrapa al lector en un fascinante y evocador viaje a traves de Tokio.Daily ExpressLa intensa prosa de Obregon es a la vez descarnada y poetica, y siempre vigorosa. Dada la fantastica quimica entre los dos detectives principales, esperamos que esta primera novela se convierta en una serie.Kirkus Reviews

Un thriller absorbente de una nueva voz muy poderosa. Una historia perturbadora, un relato adictivo que, a traves de la deslumbrante luz azul de Tokio, nos sumerge en un mundo tan rutilante como descarnado que mantendra al lector atrapado hasta el inesperado final. Recien destinado a la Unidad de Homicidios de la Policia Metropolitana de Tokio, el inspector Kosuke Iwata se hace cargo de un caso tan perturbador como complejo: una familia de cuatro miembros ha sido asesinada despiadadamente en su propia casa el dia de San Valentin. Y lo mas desconcertante es que el autor del brutal homicidio ha dejado unas cuantas pistas para los investigadores. Iwata, que cuenta con la ayuda de la joven policia Noriko Sakai, no deja de preguntarse por los extraños elementos ceremoniales de esa terrible tragedia, que apuntan a un sacrificio ritual, y que fue lo que llevo al afamado Hideo Akashi, el anterior investigador, a suicidarse saltando desde el emblematico Puente del Arcoiris al poco de empezar las pesquisas.En el escenario del crimen, Iwata y Sakai encuentran un escalofriante sol negro pintado en el techo de la habitacion. El inspector aun no ha podido desentrañar el significado de ese dibujo, pero el mensaje esta muy claro: "Estoy