Neyuki
根雪
COMING 9 JULY 2026!
Professor Will Grames’s colleague has gone missing. Only Will knows where, because he hid the body.
Will brought his young family along on a three-year adventure to the Japanese Alps, but now he’s panicked that he’ll be blamed for the man’s death—and spend the rest of his life in a Japanese prison. Will’s desperate plan: move the body into town the next night to obscure the evidence. In the meantime, he hides it in the field behind the little international university, a spot where the pampas grass is tall. But Will wakes the next morning to heavy snow. By the time he goes to retrieve the corpse, it’s over three feet deep.
Yet a much more chilling secret hides in this school tucked away in an idyllic mountain valley. Will’s actions soon trap him in a game of cat and mouse with someone who’ll do anything, including murder, to keep that secret concealed. The killer needs a scapegoat and is frantically cementing the last pieces of a plot to convict Will. Coming apart at the seams, Will must race to not only deflect the police investigation from himself, but find the real killer.
Under Shōko's Bed
アンダー・ショウコズ・ベッド
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When the only choice with any passion is one that risks it all.
Something followed Shōko Kawasaki home from her Sunday afternoon walk on the levee path. She knew he was following. Ignoring all reason, she even beckoned him inside. She had no idea he might stay, though, and no inkling he was about to upend her entire life.
M. Harmon Wilkinson
M. ハーモン・ウィルキンソン
An American novelist who spent twenty-five years in Japan, M. Harmon Wilkinson infuses his books with all the richness of Japan, intriguing but rarely fully fathomable. He moved there in 1998 as a business school professor and started writing ten years later. His first novel, Under Shōko’s Bed, appeared in 2021, and his second, Neyuki, will be available this summer. His novels have deep psychological roots and explore what can happen when the daily adventure of life for a foreigner in Japan spins out of control.
Under Shōko’s Bed is a deeply personal but unconventional love story that deals with issues of mental health that have challenged Harmon himself. His next novel, Neyuki, a suspense story, is set in the snowy Japanese Alps, a region Harmon knows well. He lived there for nine years. He has completed and is revising twelve more novels, and others are bouncing around in his head, so expect much more in the months and years to come.
Harmon is married, with three grown children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in America, so he retired to the United States in 2023. “They were too far away,” he laments, “but now Japan is. I will forever be pulled both east and west.”