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I can’t stop thinking about my lost pizza.

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (The Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai

February 23, 2026 by narfna 2 Comments

I maintain that this premise is amazing, and it needs to exist in real life. The idea of food I will never taste again HAUNTS ME. I am not even being dramatic, I am being so real with you right now. (My #1 pick for this would be Pizza D’Amore’s piping hot square pizza slices, in the Paradise Valley Mall. AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE.) I will also admit that the premise hit me so strongly that I gave this book more stars than […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #food, cozy, Hisashi Kashiwai, Japanese fiction, mystery, narfna, translated, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

narfna's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #food, cozy, Hisashi Kashiwai, Japanese fiction, mystery, narfna, translated, translated by Jesse Kirkwood ·
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Book Exchange Rules! and food mysteries are mostly fun.

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

January 5, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Yay for book exchange and holiday travel reading! There was no note, so I’m not sure who to thank, but still, thanks! Nailed that one. Cozy has been having a moment (a trend I’m mostly down with), and The Kamogawa Food Detectives is sort of cozy, but that label doesn’t quite fit. It’s a food based mystery series (in this case, almost a sequence of sort of related short stories; but also there is a sequel) featuring a father-daughter detective agency restaurant, in which the […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Book Exchange, cozy, detective mystery, food msytery, Hisashi Kashiwai, Japanses literature, Jesse Kirkwood, The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translation

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Book Exchange, cozy, detective mystery, food msytery, Hisashi Kashiwai, Japanses literature, Jesse Kirkwood, The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translation ·
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