This image is the cover for the book Twilight of Gutenberg

Twilight of Gutenberg

Twilight of Gutenberg is a fast-pasted mystery thriller with the action set mostly in Europe during WW2, against the background of a story spanning eight centuries up to the present day. Yasuo Hoshino, an artist from Japan, finds himself caught up in a series of strange events that take him as a special agent between Paris, Guernsey, London, and Berlin, as opposing sides in the war collaborate for the sake of world peace. Unable to solve all the puzzles he encounters, he leaves a written memorandum and clues to enable the mystery to be taken up by his daughter and granddaughter in turn. Not only did the mystery bring Hoshino together with his French wife Catherine, but it also brings the next generations together with their future husbands. The novel is the second volume of a trilogy. It continues the story started in Labyrinth of the Scriptorium, and many of the characters that appear in the first two volumes of the trilogy also appear in the third, A Gordian Knot, which features a number of murder cases set in Germany and Malta in 1968.

Hitoshi Goto

Hitoshi Goto graduated from Keio University, Tokyo with a BA in Economics in 1980, and received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1986. Before becoming a full-time crime novelist, he worked for Nomura, Japan’s largest investment bank, and Egon Zehnder, a Swiss consulting firm. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout Europe developing a keen interest in European history. His debut crime novel Labyrinth of the Scriptorium was awarded the prestigious Ayukawa Tetsuya Award in 2002, Japan's foremost crime novel award focusing primarily on the logic mystery genre. He is also the author of Gutenberg-Dämmerung (Twilight of Gutenberg), 2005, Ein Gordischer Knoten (A Gordian Knot), 2009, and 39 more important things than English, to work in the world, 2014