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Born in 1958 in Osaka, Taku Ashibe graduated from the faculty of law at DÅshisha University, after which he began a career in journalism, holding various posts at the Yomiuri Shimbun's Osaka office. In 1986 he received an honourable mention at the 2nd Fantasy Literature Newcomers Award, and in 1990 he won the inaugural Ayukawa Prize for his debut novel A Thirteen-Hand Murder-Comedy. He became a full-time writer in 1994. A member of Japan's Honkaku Mystery Writers' Club, he is the author of over two dozen novels and many short-story collections.
'Impressive... Enthralling... From the tenements of London's Jewish East End, to the lush costumes of the slowly declining Ottoman Empire, Goldin brings a long-lost era to life in vivid, evocative detail', Financial Times 'An inventive story rich in detail that ducks and dives just like its hero. Un-putdownable', Sun, 5*
